Hey Peter,
Any restrictions on the e-smith revision to be used with this rpm???
4.1rcX?? 4.1 ?? 4.1.1??
Orville
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 4:13 PM
Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] new version of e-smith-backup available
> e-smith-backup-1.2.0-11 is available from the ftp site:
>
>
ftp://ftp.e-smith.com/pub/e-smith/current/updates/RPMS/e-smith-backup-1.2.0-
11.noarch.rpm
>
> Differences between 1.2.0-11 and 1.2.0-10
>
> - tape is rewound after a manager initiated restore
>
> Differences between 1.2.0-10 and 1.2.0-09
>
> - tape is rewound before writing zeroes to the beginning of tape
> prior to backup
>
> - 32k of zeroes are written instead of 10k
>
> The 32k of zeroes are written because OnStream drives require a 32k
> blocksize. e-smith does not yet support OnStream drives but we will be
> looking at them for future releases (they're difficult, they don't
> work with ide-scsi, flexbackup.conf requires even more changes to cope
> with the fixed blocksize, a kernel upgrade is needed to talk to them
> with ide-tape.o, etc etc etc).
>
> Please grab it and try it out. I've tested it internally with a
> Seagate STT20000A IDE tape drive (under ide-scsi) and it works fine
> for me.
>
> --
> Regards
> Peter
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>
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