Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 January 2003 05:31, Harri Haataja wrote: >On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:05, hochenaw wrote: >> >we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes >> > (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. > >... > >> >How can i activ

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-24 Thread Scott Mcdermott
Harri Haataja on Fri 24/01 12:31 +0200: > > Hardware depends on the os in use. Some os's have a choice of > > compressed or uncompressed drives in the device list and will turn > > the drives compression on and off according to the devicename you > > used to address it. Linux does not however, so

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-24 Thread Harri Haataja
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:05, hochenaw wrote: > >we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes (capacity > >40/80GB) under linux. ... > >How can i activate software or hardware compression (cant find an > >entry in a

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 09:05, hochenaw wrote: >Hi, > >we have an HP Surestore dlt vs80e and use hp dlt IV tapes > (capacity 40/80GB) under linux. >But the backup is to slow, we should have a backup rate of 10.8 GB >(native)/20.6 (comprimized), but we do not have :-( >So i have some questions,

Re: Backup is too slow - configuration?

2003-01-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 at 3:05pm, hochenaw wrote > But the backup is to slow, we should have a backup rate of 10.8 GB > (native)/20.6 (comprimized), but we do not have :-( GB is not a rate, it's a size. I assume you mean GB/hour? > In the file tapelist we have following entry (i dont know why): >