Compression 2

[Kegnut]

I am using a Exabyte jukebox with 160mXLs in a strictly Sun environment. I am only writing about 6Gigs of data to each tape. I tried using the Directives for Unix compressed, but all my backups failed. Is there another way to compress your data? And is it even good to do so or should I just write to as many tapes as it takes?

Thanks for any help.
J Keep America Clean...
Eat a Pigeon.

 

[jethroteo]

Avoid using software compression. Use your tape library hardware compression instead.

 

[Kegnut]

Do you know which /dev/rmt/ to use? RIght now I have 0cbn (which I believe is c-compressed, b-berkely, and n-no rewind). Is there another, better choice in that area?

Thanks for the info.

J Keep America Clean...
Eat a Pigeon.

 

[Diblik]

I use 0mbn, I think it means medium compression but would like to change to high compression. Any know of any problems doing this? Will I be able to read the tapes that were written in medium compression?
TIA