Author: listen at alexander.skwar.name (Alexander Skwar)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:43:00 +0200
Hello. I'm using NBU 6.0MP4 on Solaris 10 with LTO1 tapes. How can I check, how much space is approximately left available on a tape? For example, I've got a tape which now has about 175 GB written t
Author: JMARTI05 at intersil.com (Martin, Jonathan (Contractor))
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:37:27 -0400
There's no way to tell exactly how much more data a single tape will hold, since anything better than 100GB (in your example) is compression and compression varies by file type. We run LTO3 here and
Author: listen at alexander.skwar.name (Alexander Skwar)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:51:49 +0200
Yes, I know. I'm not looking for an exact number. I don't know how LTO tapes exactly work, but I suppose that the tape is written now until a certain "position". If the tape is 609 meter long, it mig
That's not exactly how they work, but it's not why the question is hard to answer. The main problem is that there is no standard for asking a drive any of that information. That's why Netbackup (and
Author: austin.murphy at gmail.com (Austin Murphy)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:45:27 -0400
You can't make that assumption. LTO1 and 2 write 8 tracks at a time (LTO3 writes 16), along the entire length of the tape. When it gets to the end, it shifts the heads a bit and does the same in reve
Author: listen at alexander.skwar.name (Alexander Skwar)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:51:48 +0200
Darren & Austin, thanks a lot for your explanations. I know understand that my question cannot really be answered in a way that would make me happy. But now I at least understand why that is so. Best