bpmedialist -U will give you kbytes for each assigned tape.  It'll also
tell you if NBU thinks the tape is full or not.

-mike 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 4:02 PM
To: Zermeno, Brandon (Contractor)
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Media question

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:19:26PM -0500, Zermeno, Brandon (Contractor)
wrote:
> I don't know if this has been covered previously, but here goes. I 
> have NBU 4.5 and 5.1 on Win2k servers. How can I tell if my tapes are 
> being used to the max capacity? I don't think the drives (quantum 
> 220's) are compressing the data. How can I verify the size of data on
the tape?

If you have Aptare's StorageConsole, the Tape Media Summary report will
list this for every tape.  You can even drill down each tape and see
which images are on which tape.

I can't think of how to do this without StorageConsole...

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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