Kewl,

Now for my real question ;)

I was doing our monthend tonight. I basically have 2 scripts. One that i 
run @about 1:00PM which wrote to media id's 
28  8MM      TS8      0       16     -       3     22675840 ACTIVE
29  8MM      TS8      0       17     -       3     5658464  ACTIVE

Ok, then i ran the 2nd monthend backup @about 7:00pm which wrote to media 
id's
30  8MM      TS8      0       18     -       6     4418112  ACTIVE
31  8MM      TS8      0       19     -       6     23040704 ACTIVE
The script runs multiple scheduals. but it then gave me no media 
availible(error 96) so then i had to add another tape to the media pool 
which wrote:
32  8MM      TS8      0       20     -       4     10727680 ACTIVE

I'm using Mammoth Tapes. The tape library is an exabyte 210 with 2 tape 
drives. My bp.conf is pretty much bare.

Tape ID 30 isn't full, so why didn't netbackup just us tape 30?

Thanks

Karl




"Fabbro, Andrew P" <Fabbro.Andrew AT cnf DOT com>
02/28/2002 11:54 PM

 
        To:     "'Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA '" <Karl.Rossing AT 
Federated DOT CA>, "'Veritas 
Netbackup '" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
        cc: 
        Subject:        RE: [Veritas-bu] Free space left on media


You can check how much was used - take a loot at the "available_media" 
script that's in the goodies directory. 
How much is left could only be an estimate because you don't know what 
compression factor you're going to get.  It varies widely depending on the 
type of data...you could probably compute an average for your site (or for 
a certain class of backups) and use that as a guesstimate for how much 
space is left.