On Tuesday 09 August 2005 01:52 pm, Sebastian Jeremias wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
All of the DAT drives I've ever used did the compression without being told. Are you sure that isn't the case here?
What makes you think it isn't using compression?
BTW, figure on getting only 1.6 times the data (or less) on the tape when using compression compared to the 2.0 they tell you that you will get.
I'm backing up two partitions. One is 9GB and the other is 11GB. That's MUCH less than 40 :)
And the tape runs out??
What's strange is that even software compression wouldn't make it (either bzlib or zlib, level 5).
What does "wouldn't make it" mean?
But I'll try that again... it sounds almost weird. Most of the files are plain text.
What's the density level I should pass to the dump program to reach DDS-4 density?
In my opinion, nothing.