tapestor drive

[Datanode]

we have a tapestor drive to do backups on however it is supposed to have hardware compression so it can store 20 gb of data it is not storing this amount so i presume compression is not being enabled anyone know how to do a backup with hardware compression or even software on the fly. ( we do not have room to store a zipped version of the data to store on the tape ) There is no switch to turn compression on like some drives anyone have this drive that can point me in the right direction.

[bdg1983]

There is some docs on ftape, compression and others here (http://linux.nf/stepbystep.htm) that may help.

Have you also tried the How-To's at www.linuxdoc.org (http://www.linuxdoc.org) ?