The drives are AIT1 and the library is a Spectralogic 10000s
The tape cartridges are a mix of Sony and Seagate cartridges and both are
rated at 25GB native.
The model # for the seagate is 50G.

Leo Humar
LCS Pty Ltd
lhumar AT vic.bigpond.net DOT au.


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>What model Sony drive's do you use and what model tape cartridges?
>What model Sony drive's do you use and what model tape cartridges?
>
>TIA
>Mark
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Leo Humar [SMTP:lhumar AT VIC.BIGPOND.NET DOT AU]
>> Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 9:19 PM
>> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>> Subject:      Re: Admin GUI
>>
>> G'day Mark
>>
>> We also have Sony AIT drives and compression on our LAN clients is off
>> The capacity's reported range between 38GB and 64GB. For a broad range of
>> files we get
>> around 48GB per tape and the higher end are SQL dumps.
>> We had greater capacity's reported with the SQL agent 70GB+.
>>
>> It does depend on the client compression on/off and the type of data that
>> is
>> backed up.
>>
>> Leo Humar
>> LCS Pty Ltd
>> lhumar AT vic.bigpond.net DOT au
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Remeta, Mark <MRemeta AT SELIGMANDATA DOT COM>
>> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>> Date: Saturday, April 24, 1999 3:20 AM
>> Subject: Admin GUI
>>
>>
>> >Hello all, under the Admin GUI, when you look at Storage Pool Volumes,
>> the
>> >Estimated Capacity that is listed, is this the actual amount of data
>> written
>> >to the tape? If client compression is turned on how does that affect
this
>> >number. Is the number given the amount of data backed up after
>> compression
>> >or before. The reason I ask is that I have a SONY AIT tape drive with
the
>> >25GB tapes and the tape drive is suppose to include compression to
>> increase
>> >the capacity of the tapes to 50GB. However when I look in the Admin GUI
>> none
>> >of the tapes list capacities greater than say 24GB. I have client
>> >compression turned on for our NT Workstations and Servers but not our
>> >NetWare Servers but the capacity is the same for both tapes (they are in
>> >separate storage pools).
>> >
>> >TIA
>> >
>> >Mark Remeta
>> >Seligman Data Corp.
>> >100 Park Avenue
>> >New York, NY 10017
>> >(212)716-2810