setting compression 'off' on a DLT4000

2000-12-13 Thread Matt McManus
I have now got amanda running very happily on my network. I have a query about how to turn hardware compression 'off' on my Quantum DLT4000 drive. At the moment I use the 'density select' button on the front of the drive, but I understand that I am able to do this with the 'tapedev'. At the mome

Re: problem with dumping from host

2000-12-12 Thread Matt McManus
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, John R. Jackson wrote: > >... I have have been using amstatus to monitor the > >dump, and it seems that the dump gets to about 140%, then goes back to 0%. > > I notice it's well over 2 (or 4) GBytes in size. It's my understanding > Linux does not support files > 2 GBytes.

problem with dumping from host

2000-12-11 Thread Matt McManus
I am having a problem dumping from a particular host. All my other hosts are able to complete their backups without problem, however this particular host 'queg' seems to be restarting it's dumping process once it gets to a particular point. I have have been using amstatus to monitor the dump, and