On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:32:53AM -0700, Eric N. Valor wrote:
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> 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
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
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:20:06 +0200, Eric N. Valor wrote:
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> 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
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
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