On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:13:49AM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote:
> 1. If I have a 16 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 7, does this mean I 
> effectively have 16 days of backups?

Yes.

> As in, I can do a restore of up to 16 
> days?

Yes.

> 2. If I disable hardware compression and use software compression, how would 
> that affect my tapetype definition?
> 
> define tapetype DLT8000 {
>     comment "Quantaum (IBM) DLT-8000"
>     length 37482 mbytes
>     filemark 2362 kbytes
>     speed 5482 kps
> }

With SW compression, length should be the native tape capacity (40GB in
the case of a DLT-8000).  37.5GB is close enough for now.

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