You can set the compression and block size natively in Amanda, no need
to run mt.
See here: https://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amanda-devices.7.html
Original Message
From: Charles Stroom
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 6:35 PM
To: amanda-users@amanda.org
Reply To: Charles Stroom
Subject: executing tape drive commands before amdump/amcheck/amflush starts
Hi,
before above amanda programs are started, 2 mt(1) commands are executed
("datcompression 0" & "setblk 32768"). At present, I do this with cron
jobs just before the amanda program starts (or manually in other cases),
but is there a simple way to integrate this somewhere in amanda? E.g.
amanda.conf?
I looked at the "script" section, but it seems to be designed
for other things, but maybe I am wrong. It also seems that
"datcompression" requires root execution, complicating matters a bit.
I guess I could make a script something like "my_amdump" etc with the
commands, but this has not my preference.
Thanks, Charles
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Charles Stroom
email: charles at no-spam.stremen.xs4all.nl (remove the "no-spam.")
