> If you start running tight on space on that tape, remember to add the "z" > flag when you create, and read the tape. Then it will compress the data. > Depending on what the data is, it can recover a lot of space.
I'm not a big fan of using compression on the tapes, and I really haven't tried it. The downside is if you have a marginal tape, most of the data (anything after the marginal spot) becomes hard or impossible to recover. But I wonder if it is better to use the z flag (i.e, 'tar' does the compression, through gzip) or by preselecting compression (using mt; I think there's an option) beforehand. > Ric
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