From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 12:51:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08019 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:51:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07955 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:50:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01207; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:50:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:50:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mark Castillo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar - writing to tape compressed? In-Reply-To: <350DF4CA.D90D77BF@webfreaks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Mark Castillo wrote: > now that i've got my scsi HP SureStore T41 tape drive working, I can now > tar to the tape. My question now is how do I take advantage of > compression? Can tar do this or must I use a different program? I believe, but I have not tested this, but you can use the densities set this up. Run `mt status'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message