Are your LTO tapes still in FILLING status?  They will show as a
percentage of estimated capacity until either they reach the FULL status
or they exceed the estimated capacity while in FILLING status.  When in
FULL status, what you see is what you got.

>>> GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM 4/20/2006 2:46:05 PM >>>
No misunderstanding at all. I know how it works. I see upwards of 100GB
on
some of my K tapes but "NO LESS" than 40GB on any of the others.

All I did was "move" 20 servers what were getting the full 40GB
compression
or better on a 3590 tape system to a LTO system. The data is the same,
the
servers just moved. To me compression looks like it is not working.

Thanks,

Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator
SAIC M/S-G1b
(858)826-4062
Email: geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of
Mark Stapleton
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:34 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: tape capacity

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 04/20/2006
01:18:14 PM:
> The way the LTO2 drives seem to be working is that although the
compressions
> settings within TSM are the same, and the servers were just migrated
from
> one server to the other, if the tape were listed 20/40 it is only
storing 20
> instead of 40GB. That is not what the 3590 is doing. I would have
expected
> to see this same data on a tape listed at 200/400GB closer to the
400GB
> compressed value and not the 200GB value.
>
> So I think the question still remains how to reach that upper limit
instead
> of the lower? Is there a TSM setting I have missed? Is there a drive
setting
> that needs adjusting on the drive itself?

You missed the point of what Richard was saying. The amount of
compression
a particular tape gets is entirely dependent upon the data you're
backing
up. If it's easily compressable (text files, relatively empty database
files, and such), you'll get much closer to 400GB (you may even get
more),
while if it's *not* compressable (full database files, binaries, and
such), you'll get closer to 200GB. I have had LTO tapes that fill at
95%
of the uncompressed size, and others that have filled at 125% of the
compressed rating.

There is no TSM setting that will affect the compressability of client
data.

--
Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT usbank DOT com)
US Bank MR Backup and Recovery Management
Office 262.790.3190
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