Recommended way to set tape default at boot?

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:50:22AM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> When I reboot my PE 2450 running Debian etch, the DAT tape drive
> defaults to hardware compression. My backup software, Amanda, prefers to
> do compression itself and needs the tape drive compression off.
> Consequently, I have to remember to do 'ln -s /dev/nst0 /dev/tape && mt
> datcompression 0' every time I reboot the host. Naturally, I forget.

Better would be to just change the amanda configuration to use /dev/nst0
instead of /dev/tape.
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Michael