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 3gb instead of 4.. is there overhead with tar that > I'm not aware of? >
I have a more modern drive (DDS-4) and I've found that when I backuo already compressed data I cannot backup more than 16-17 GB on a tape with the drive compression but if I backup without drive compression I can backup around 20 GB. In my case the mt-st package init file creates 3 additionnal devices st0a, st0l and st0m. st0m has blocksize=0 and no compression, so that is the one I use when doing a backup of compressed data. Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
