Re: [Bacula-users] Dumb tape drive question

2008-02-18 Thread Tom Allison
Dan Langille wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Tom Allison wrote: > >> Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not >> provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to >> write across multiple tapes. >> >> Is this still true? >> >> So if I'm lookin

Re: [Bacula-users] Dumb tape drive question

2008-02-18 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 18, 2008 1:01 PM, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not > provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to > write across multiple tapes. > > Is this still true? > > So if I'm looking at a tape drive t

Re: [Bacula-users] Dumb tape drive question

2008-02-18 Thread Dan Langille
On Feb 18, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Tom Allison wrote: > Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not > provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to > write across multiple tapes. > > Is this still true? > > So if I'm looking at a tape drive that says it is

[Bacula-users] Dumb tape drive question

2008-02-18 Thread Tom Allison
Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to write across multiple tapes. Is this still true? So if I'm looking at a tape drive that says it is an 80/204GB type, I should use 80GB for my calculations