Oh ok, well that makes sense. I'm not sure how much data is already compressed. But I understand now.
Thanks, Jason John Drescher wrote: > On 3/2/07, Jason King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have an LTO2 drive with tapes that hold 200g native and 400g with >> hardware compression. I have the hardware compression turned on on my >> tape drive. I know because I went and manually made sure using the tape >> tools that come with FreeBSD (The os the storage daemon is running on). >> Last night my tape filled up with only 215G. I know it filled up because >> I got a message to change tapes from the daemon. I didn't do anything >> specific in Bacula to tell it to use hardware compression on the tape >> drive because I didn't think I had to. I made sure hardware compression >> was enabled in FreeBSD. My question is, is there a specific way to tell >> bacula to take advantage of hardware compression? Perhaps a setting in >> the storage daemon config file or the bacula director config file. >> > If you fit 215G than hardware compression is definitely on. Are you > saving mpegs, bz2 files or some other already compressed format as > these will not compress a second time... > > John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
