Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 21:00:12 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HP SureStore T20 Message-ID: <20001107210012.J85967@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <00110718325103.02691@marbsd.tninet.se>; from "Mark Rowlands" on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 06:32:51PM %2B0000 References: <3A011DE0.9FA0FF18@polbox.com> <20001107163917.B83797@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <00110718325103.02691@marbsd.tninet.se>
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* Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> [20001107 20:40]: wrote regarding 'Re: HP SureStore T20' =>On Tuesday 07 November 2000 13:39, Odhiambo Washington wrote: =>> * svga <svga@polbox.com> [20001102 11:35]: =>> =>Oops, I made a mistake! =>> => =>> =>Is it possible to backup 20GB to a single tape (Travan 10GB native) =>> =>using dump? =>> =>> If you enable compression but I've never managed to achieve that. But on =>> this list recently someone showed how to pass the output of dump to gzip =>> then to tape...pls try to search for it =>> =>> =>> -Wash => =>not sure that will help much, there is a diminishing rate of return, try =>compressing mp3 files for example => =>but..... => =>dump 0af - / | gzip -9 | dd of=/dev/rsa0 bs=10k => =>was suggested by Mike Meyer How about 'mt comp enable' OR 'mt comp on' (from mt manpage) ?? Has anyone ever achieved that??? I've failed with it on 3.4-S and even 3.5-S but I haven't tried it on 4.1.1 but isn't it supposed to work anyway? Someone must have gotten that working??? -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupiry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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