[flexbackup-help] Compression

[Diego A. A. G. <da...@un...>]

Hi to all!

I'm new on the list.

First of all, congratulations for flexbackup. Its an excellent program.
The code is easy to understand and the documentation is really good.

I have a problem with the hardware compression. When I set compress to
hardware ($compress = 'hardware';) and change the variable of
compression in mt ($mt{'compression'} = 'datcompression';) I obtain the
error:

mt: invalid tape operation `compression'

I think I understand the code and the compression variable cannot be
overrided, and the command is always mt compression 1.

...
if ($operation =~ m/generic-blocksize/) {
	if ($::uname =~ /Linux/) {
                push(@operations,'compression 1');
                } elsif ($::uname =~ /FreeBSD/)
...

Am I right ? Are you going to change the code to allow override this ?

Im going to try changing "compression 1" for "datcompression on" that is
the appropriate  command in my mt program.

Long life to Free Software !!!

Congratulations again.