On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Ben Laurie <ben AT links DOT org> wrote:
> I recently swapped out my LTO-2 drive for an LTO-3 drive, but I'm
> still using LTO-2 tapes.
>
> The current tape is still going strong and the latest backup says:
>
>   Last Volume Bytes:      607,752,327,168 (607.7 GB)
>
> which seems like quite a lot for a 200GB tape. Now, I realise the
> drive can do compression, but with the old drive I never saw more than
> ~400 GB on a single tape.
>
> Should I be suspicious? What exactly is Last Volume Bytes measuring?

I have over 1TB on a few 200GB LTO2 tapes. This is due the the high
compression of the dataset. LastVolumeBytes is measuring the total
bytes stored on the tape.

John

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