On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:59:33 +0000 "McGraw, Robert P" <rmcg...@purdue.edu> wrote:
> Why does amanda stop at %52 when I still have 1.5TB of data in the > holding disk to write to the tape? It is hard to believe that the > LTO4 compression is so bad that I am not getting any compression at > all. It would be if you have both tape drive compression turned on (as you do) and compression specified in the disk list entries (DLEs). Conventional wisdom on this list has been that DLE compression (using gzip, say), is more efficient than tape drive compression. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB