Jon LaBadie wrote:

I don't get more than 20 - 40 DLE's on a single tape.  I suspect that is
pretty common, certainly I suspect few would routinely put 100 DLE's on
a single tape.  Yet even given this many "filemarks" wasting space on

My daily backups go to one AIT-1 tape, 35 Gbyte capacity and it
contains 131 DLE's at the moment.

I probably should have included another "I think" on that last sentence :))
But I'll chance it.

I agree witht his.  I mean, I believe it has zero impact.
(Yes, but there are other tapes where the amount is significant.
But using those older tapes with a few hundred meg capacity on current
disks seems ridiculous.)


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