On 02/01/2012 04:18 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I looked at the man page and don't see any way to do this - maybe it is a
> function of the compression program used I dunno.
>
> Is there any way to get gtar to report on the compression it achieved?
>
> I can't just check file sizes becau
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> 'Deploying' amanda is a matter of installing the rpm and editing a
>> couple of config files about the tape drive, tapes, targets, and
>> holding space. And maybe some firewall tweaking
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 04:00:06 PM Alan McKay wrote:
> The GZIP environment variable is working really well. It tells me the
> compression ratio and even send it to STDERR for me so I can easily
> separate that from the gtar output.
Cool. That's useful information.
_
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> What I would do is use the '-' special filename to pipe the uncompressed
> tar to stdout, pipe to the compressor of choice, then pipe to tee, and have
> one branch of the tee go to the tape and the other branch go to a program
> to count bytes.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 'Deploying' amanda is a matter of installing the rpm and editing a
> couple of config files about the tape drive, tapes, targets, and
> holding space. And maybe some firewall tweaking - but nothing really
> complicated. You get a lot of co
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 09:18:08 AM Alan McKay wrote:
>> The basic problem is that I know how much data is there to begin with but I
>> don't know how much room it took up on the tape so I have no idea how much
>> room is left on the tape
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 09:18:08 AM Alan McKay wrote:
> The basic problem is that I know how much data is there to begin with but I
> don't know how much room it took up on the tape so I have no idea how much
> room is left on the tape.
What I would do is use the '-' special filename to pi
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:47 AM, John Doe wrote:
>
>> 'Deploying' amanda is a matter of installing the rpm and editing a
>> couple of config files about the tape drive, tapes, targets, and
>> holding space. And maybe some firewall tweaking - but nothing really
>> complicated. You get a lot of c
From: Les Mikesell
> 'Deploying' amanda is a matter of installing the rpm and editing a
> couple of config files about the tape drive, tapes, targets, and
> holding space. And maybe some firewall tweaking - but nothing really
> complicated. You get a lot of coverage of 'real-world' problems
>
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
>>
>> I haven't used it for a while, but I thought it had an indexing
>> mechanism that would let you tell it what you want and it would tell
>> you the tapes you need and the order to restore them (for full +
>> incremental cases). And it could
>
> I haven't used it for a while, but I thought it had an indexing
> mechanism that would let you tell it what you want and it would tell
> you the tapes you need and the order to restore them (for full +
> incremental cases). And it could re-index the tapes if you lost the
> disk copy. Maybe t
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
>>
>> Is there some reason you aren't using amanda? Give it some holding
>> disk space and it will run multiple backups at once, buffering on
>> disk, and figure out how they should go on the tape for you.
>>
>
>
> I'm archiving, not backing up.
>
> Is there some reason you aren't using amanda? Give it some holding
> disk space and it will run multiple backups at once, buffering on
> disk, and figure out how they should go on the tape for you.
>
I'm archiving, not backing up.
I looked at Amanda for a few days and it would be really clu
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
>>
>> There is a --totals option, but that is before compression. I don't
>> think there is a way to do it.
>>
>
> Dang. THere is a "tell" command on "mt" which tells you what block number
> you are on, but according to the man page only exists f
>
> There is a --totals option, but that is before compression. I don't
> think there is a way to do it.
>
Dang. THere is a "tell" command on "mt" which tells you what block number
you are on, but according to the man page only exists for some types of
drive. And evidently not mine :-(
That wo
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I looked at the man page and don't see any way to do this - maybe it is a
> function of the compression program used I dunno.
>
> Is there any way to get gtar to report on the compression it achieved?
>
> I can't just check file si
Hey folks,
I looked at the man page and don't see any way to do this - maybe it is a
function of the compression program used I dunno.
Is there any way to get gtar to report on the compression it achieved?
I can't just check file sizes because I'm writing data to tape.
The basic problem is that
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