From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 9:59: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9966D37B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 09:58:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.22.163.2] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13tCzN-0005UB-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:56:54 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13tD2a-000Mnc-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 07 Nov 2000 21:00:12 +0300 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 21:00:12 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: HP SureStore T20 Message-ID: <20001107210012.J85967@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" References: <3A011DE0.9FA0FF18@polbox.com> <20001107163917.B83797@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> <00110718325103.02691@marbsd.tninet.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00110718325103.02691@marbsd.tninet.se>; from "Mark Rowlands" on Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 06:32:51PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mark Rowlands [20001107 20:40]: wrote regarding 'Re: HP SureStore T20' =>On Tuesday 07 November 2000 13:39, Odhiambo Washington wrote: =>> * svga [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