>So what I am hearing is that amanda can backup no partition larger then
>the size of the tape drive + whatever compression is in use.
Correct, for the moment. I'm trying to fix that (literally) as I'm
writing this.
>OK. One last question how do you specify to use hardware or sofware
>compression?
If you use software compression, then you either pick a device name or
use whatever method your OS provides to disable hardware compression,
then use the "compress" dumptype options in amanda.conf.
If you use hardware compression, you use "compress none" in amanda.conf
and turn on hardware compression with the device name or whatever.
When you use hardware compression, you need to lie to Amanda about the
tape size. I typically crank it up about 20-30% (don't double it like
the vendors say you can -- they live in a dream world :-).
>Andrew Hall
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
