Re: 4mm DAT drive

2004-06-27 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:32:53AM -0700, Eric N. Valor wrote: > > Hmm.. I looked into that already. However, what I'm backing up are > already gzipped files so I doubt I'm going to get much compression > there. Perhaps that's my problem (or at least part of it). I still > wonder why I only get

Re: 4mm DAT drive

2004-06-27 Thread Eric N. Valor
Hmm.. I looked into that already. However, what I'm backing up are already gzipped files so I doubt I'm going to get much compression there. Perhaps that's my problem (or at least part of it). I still wonder why I only get 3gb instead of 4.. is there overhead with tar that I'm not aware of? Th

Re: 4mm DAT drive

2004-06-27 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:20:06 +0200, Eric N. Valor wrote: > > remember how to address the compression of the drive. In any event, I'm > sure it's different in Debian than old SunOS... =20 If nothing else, you could create a compressed tar volume with the j or z options to tar. -- Stephen Patters

4mm DAT drive

2004-06-26 Thread Eric N. Valor
Howdy. I have an older 4mm SCSI DAT drive (HP C1533A). It's supposed to be 4gb native, but I can only seem to tar up ~3gb. It's been quite a few years since I last used a tape drive (back when SunOS4.1 was new), so I don't remember how to address the compression of the drive. In any event, I'm