On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:33:49AM +0300, heryzo AT simicro-internet DOT mg 
wrote:
> 
> my tapetype is (after running tapetype on my tapeserver)
> 
> define tapetype HP-DAT-DDS2  {
>     comment "HP DAT r<E9>sultat produit par tapetype sur parasy "
>     length 3264 mbytes

Almost certainly, you incorrectly ran this with HW compression ON.

The length should have measured 3.8 - 3.9 GB.

If you do your backups with HW compresion ON, you probably want to
fudge this to a much higher number, guessing on the compressibility
of your data.


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