Or is the NT drive a compressed drive? Or MS-Exchange, with a compressed
information store?

I routinely get about 100 GB of SAP/Oracle on a DLT 7000, with Format=DRIVE.
OTOH, I max ot at about 68 GB with NT (as seen from the TSM server) and at
30 GB the tape will go FULL if I'm backing up MS-Exchange.

If you have the network capacity, don't do TSM client compression; let the
tape drive do the data compression.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Sims [mailto:rbs AT BU DOT EDU]
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 7:52 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: can't over the 30 GB on tape.
>
>
> >I have adsm 3.1 on aix 4.2.1 with DLT library. On the
> library I have 3
> >stgpool NT,UNIX and Oracle.
> >After having a space problem on the library we decided to upgrade the
> >20/40GB tape drive
> >to 35/70GB tape drive and start labeling all the volumes.
> >The problem is that in the unix stgpool I can see 35G capacity on the
> >volume some time more then that, but on the NT stgpool the
> capacity on
> >the volume can't get over the 30GB per volume with status full & pct
> >98%.
> >
> >The IBM guy's told me to change the drive format from fromat=drive to
> >fomat=dlt35, but this didn't help.
> >I told them that the problem is only on the NT stgpool there is no
> >problem on the unix stgpool.
>
> The "IBM guys" might instead have advised specifying Format=DLT35C
> if they thought there was a problem with Format=DRIVE.
> But: Are your clients doing their own compression...?
>
>    Richard Sims, BU
>