Hi Gene, on Monday, 2003-07-28 at 07:25:08, you wrote: > >| EGREP=grep -E > > > >certainly looked wrong to me. Quoting did it: > >| EGREP='grep -E' > > I don't use this but that is how it is in my copy of > amanda-2.4.4p1-20030716, at line 33, with the quotes.
Must have been fixed meanwhile -- my install directory is from June 26th, I guess I downloaded the source one or two days before. > > length 3848 mbytes > > [...] > > This looks as if the drives compression is on. If it is, then the > data from /dev/urandom gets somewhat expanded by it, and will report > a bit less than the tapes raw capacity. Hmm...I was a bit surprised about this value already, but according to both the DIP switch and mt, compression is off. > Since the gzip that amanda uses can beat the hardware in every dept > but speed, we generally recommend that the drives hardware compressor > be disabled. Can amanda be told to use bzip2? This P3 is far from fully loaded with its job as a WLAN router and fileserver, and as it cannot be clocked down to save some energy, it might as well do something useful for the calories it burns :) regards Matthias