On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 at 9:35pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > It has mounted partitions as follows: > Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on > /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s0 1778230 694298 1030586 41% / > /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s0 2007070 265390 1681468 14% /home > /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0 2007070 119950 1826908 7% /opt > /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 2007070 1230887 715971 64% /opt/local > > All of which adds up to around 2.2 Gb. I have specified the tape compression > device, but to use software compression for c1t1d0s0 otherwise amanda won't > touch it.
Don't Do That. Using hardware compression on already compressed data leads to explosions (well, in data size on tape, anyway). How big did you tell amanda your tapes are? If you use hardware compression, you need to "lie" to amanda about your tapelength based on how well you estimate your data compresses. Note that 2X compression is pretty rare. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
