Author: gunnerjoe <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 12:21:57 -0700
Hello, Win2k8_64 Legato 7.6.4 server Tape Library HP MSL2024 So after much digging the only way to tell that Hardware Compression is ENABLED on my Tape Library is to run HP Tape Tools and query the d
Author: gunnerjoe <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:59:41 -0700
Hi All, I'm running Win2k8_64 Legato 7.6.4 server and most of my clients are Win2k3 or Win2k8 servers or WinXP or Win7. Currently I'm using Standard NT Directives and was wondering if you could give
Author: gunnerjoe <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:05:00 -0700
Hi All, I would like to add that I'm confused as to why a 3TB LTO-5 tape is showing full after 1800 GB. Not all tapes do that some get to 2600 GB or so but the last one was full at 1800 GB. Ideas? Jo
Author: Frank Swasey <Frank.Swasey AT UVM DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:15:45 -0400
I would like to add that I'm confused as to why a 3TB LTO-5 tape is showing full after 1800 GB. Not all tapes do that some get to 2600 GB or so but the last one was full at 1800 GB. Ideas? Write err
Author: "Stanley R. Horwitz" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:44:17 +0000
What type of data are you backing up on those Windows servers? If your clients contain a lot of compressed media files, then the compression ratio you get from your LTO-5 tape drives might be degrade
Author: gunnerjoe <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:18:52 -0700
Hi All, Tape Library is few months old and it has run cleaning tape recently. The data is programming code or MatLab output. No compressed media files. thanks, Joe +-- +--
Compression in this case is done on the client. It exacts a toll in terms of the client CPU and memory. The advantage is that it sends less data over the network, so it might make sense to use it if
Author: gunnerjoe <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:02:36 -0700
Hello, I checked all the logs there are no errors at all except an occasional "ASR" could not back, but nothing that would explain why most tapes reach "Full" at 2.5 - 2.7 TB and one tape reported fu
Author: Preston de Guise <enterprise.backup AT GMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:07:23 +1000
Hi, On 19/04/2013, at 9:02 AM, gunnerjoe <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM> wrote: No. No, no, no. LTO 5 is NOT supposed to hold 3TB. An LTO 5 tape is supposed to hold 1.5TB. Vendors and the
Author: "Werth, Dave" <dave.werth AT GARMIN DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:18:56 +0000
Joe, The native data capacity for an LTO-5 tape is 1.5 TB. The 3 TB you were quoted assumes a 2 to 1 compression ratio which is typically used for marketing purposes. What compression ratio you actua
Author: bingo <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:09:53 -0700
It was old tape practice that in case of a write error, a longer gap was created to pass that area. Although i do not know exactly how tape drives are controlled today, this procedure should still be
Author: Bill Wilkie <billwilkie AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:06:56 +0000
This is correct. Just to elaborate a bit on this, many moons ago when there were reel to reel 2400 ft tapes, when you got an error it did indeed skip over the bad spot and attempt to write again. Bac
Author: gunnerjoe <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:59:02 -0700
Hi All, Thank You for all your replies. So, looking at my system trying to figure out what is actually doing the compression I'm seeing. Setup: Win2k8_64 Legato 7.6.4 server Tape Library HP MSL2024 W
Author: Preston de Guise <enterprise.backup AT GMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:02:09 +1000
On 20/04/2013, at 2:59 AM, gunnerjoe <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM> wrote: The compressasm directive (and the more recent directives for performing gzip compression or bzip2 compression)
Author: gunnerjoe <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:23:22 -0700
Hi All, Preston de Guise wrote: "If the data is going to tape, which it is in your case, then you're best off using the tape compression functionality. " Were is "Tape Compression Functionality" cont
Author: bingo <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:10:40 -0700
On UNIX/Linux, you use the option indirectly by talking to the appropriate device name. For exampe /dev/rmt/0cbn (not sure about the absolute path) uses compression while /dev/rmt/0bn would not. On W