[Bacula-users] Enabling hardware compression

2010-08-18 Thread Romer Ventura
Hello, I am running Bacula 5.0.2 with a Quantum SuperLoader 3 with DLTv4 tape drive. If i want to enable hardware compression so i can use 320GB from my VS1 tapes all i would need to do is run this command: mt -f /dev/nst0 defcompression 1, correct? Is there any way to enable and disabl

Re: [Bacula-users] Enabling hardware compression

2010-08-18 Thread John Drescher
> I am running Bacula 5.0.2 with a Quantum SuperLoader 3 with DLTv4 tape > drive. If i want to enable hardware compression so i can use 320GB from my > VS1 tapes all i would need to do is run this command: mt -f > /dev/nst0 defcompression 1, correct? > Is there any way to enable and disable hardwar

Re: [Bacula-users] Enabling hardware compression

2010-08-18 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello > If i want to enable hardware compression so i can use 320GB from > my VS1 tapes 2:1 hardware compression for general data is quite an optimistic figure, but I am sure you already know that... > mt -f /dev/nst0 defcompression 1, correct? "mt defcompression" controls the default compressi

Re: [Bacula-users] Enabling hardware compression

2010-08-18 Thread Win Htin
> Hello, > >        I am running Bacula 5.0.2 with a Quantum SuperLoader 3 with DLTv4 > tape drive. If i want to enable hardware compression so i can use > 320GB from my VS1 tapes all i would need to do is run this command: > mt -f /dev/nst0 defcompression 1, correct? > >        Is there any way to

Re: [Bacula-users] Enabling hardware compression

2010-08-18 Thread ganiuszka
W dniu 2010.08.18 16:57, Romer Ventura pisze: > Hello, > > I am running Bacula 5.0.2 with a Quantum SuperLoader 3 with DLTv4 tape > drive. If i want to enable hardware compression so i can use 320GB from > my VS1 tapes all i would need to do is run this command: mt -f > /dev/nst0 defcompression 1,

Re: [Bacula-users] Enabling hardware compression

2010-08-19 Thread Alan Brown
ganiuszka wrote: > mt-gnu can not switch the hardware compression but mt-st can switch it. > > In addition, in mtx tools you will find program called tapeinfo. It can > show the hardware compression state for a tape drive and much more. smartctl will also provide useful information if the tape