now a dump question (was Re: tar question...)

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 10:07 am, someone claiming to be Brad De Vries wrote:
<snip>
> You could try:
> /sbin/dump -0u -z 2 -B 10000000 -f /dev/st0 /home
>
> The only real change was adding the "compression
> level" parameter to the -z option.
>
> This seems to work on RHL 7.3.

Well, when looking in the manual for how the drive handles compression, I find 
out that the *green* LED on the left front of the drive means that the drive 
needs to be cleaned. A *green* LED. Whose idea was *that*? Shouldn't it be an 
orange, or yellow, or red? Certainly not *green*.

Anyway, after cleaning it, the drive, and the dump, seem to be working fine.
<I am embarrassed...>

Thanks, 
Tim

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