From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 10:26: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A488037B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 286E143E42 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g9MHQ4mR075328; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:26:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:26:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Chad Morland Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT Backup Questions Message-ID: <20021022172604.GA7213@dan.emsphone.com> References: <008c01c279ea$4a095930$1f02000a@downtown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <008c01c279ea$4a095930$1f02000a@downtown> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 22), Chad Morland said: > I am looking to create a multi-tape backup of close to 260G of data > using a DLT-7000 with compression turned on. Does anyone have any > recommendations for what to use to accomplish this? Amanda does not > support multi-tape archives so that is out of the question. I have > tried to use gnu tar but for some reason that was only placing 35G > onto each tape (I am trying to use compression.) I have used gnutar to back up to multiple DLT tapes and it works fine. Check the LEDs on the unit when you're doing a backup. If the "35" and "Compress" LEDs are not lit, you might have tapes that had been written with compression off at some point. Rewind the tape, and press the "Density" button until "35", "Compress", and "Override" are all lit. Then try the backup again. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message