Darren,

Thank you for your answer.

Can you suggest how I can get more per tape capacity?
Should I relabel tape using different device (at the moment
/dev/rmt/0cbn on Solaris 8) ?

DLTIV tape with DLT7000 tape drive should give me 55-70G

Thank you,
Aleksandr

On 11/6/07, A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy wrote:
> > Dear NetBackup Gurus,
> >
> > I have inherited installation of NetBackup 3.4 with Sun L1000 library
> > and DLT7000 drives.
> >
> > My tape drive type is set to DLT. At the moment I am getting 30-40G
> > per DLTIV tape (with compression - using /dev/rmt/0cbn Solaris device
> > ).
> >
> > Looks like NetBackup 3.4 supports DLT , DLT2 and DLT3.
>
> The different types are only to separate media and drives.  They don't
> affect performance or capacity.  That is controlled by the OS and the
> device you use to write to it.
>
> > Should I change my tape drive to DLT3 ? Will I be able to get more
> > data per tape?
>
> If you only have one drive type, no I wouldn't change anything.  It will
> have no effect on tape performance or capacity.
>
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