On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Steve Lee wrote:
> if i do
> mt -f /dev/nst0 compression on
> something happens but when i type this after
> mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> it doesn't say if compression is on or off.
I don't have my tape drive with compression installed right now, so I
can't compare.
But, I believe this means your tape drive does not have hardware
compression then.
> This leads to another question i have.
> what if i have a drive that does not
> support compression? can i
> do the below still? without hardware compression?
Yes, you will benefit from software compression if the drive doesn't have
hardware compression. You can go about this many ways, but I can't advise
how to do it with dump. I just make managable sized tarred/gzipped files
and tar them to tape myself (in scripts of course).
I have my hands on a scsi tape drive again, so I think I'm going to give
BRU a try.
charles
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