What model Sony drive's do you use and what model tape cartridges?

TIA
Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leo Humar [SMTP:lhumar AT VIC.BIGPOND.NET DOT AU]
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 9:19 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Admin GUI
>
> G'day Mark
>
> We also have Sony AIT drives and compression on our LAN clients is off
> The capacity's reported range between 38GB and 64GB. For a broad range of
> files we get
> around 48GB per tape and the higher end are SQL dumps.
> We had greater capacity's reported with the SQL agent 70GB+.
>
> It does depend on the client compression on/off and the type of data that
> is
> backed up.
>
> Leo Humar
> LCS Pty Ltd
> lhumar AT vic.bigpond.net DOT au
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remeta, Mark <MRemeta AT SELIGMANDATA DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Date: Saturday, April 24, 1999 3:20 AM
> Subject: Admin GUI
>
>
> >Hello all, under the Admin GUI, when you look at Storage Pool Volumes,
> the
> >Estimated Capacity that is listed, is this the actual amount of data
> written
> >to the tape? If client compression is turned on how does that affect this
> >number. Is the number given the amount of data backed up after
> compression
> >or before. The reason I ask is that I have a SONY AIT tape drive with the
> >25GB tapes and the tape drive is suppose to include compression to
> increase
> >the capacity of the tapes to 50GB. However when I look in the Admin GUI
> none
> >of the tapes list capacities greater than say 24GB. I have client
> >compression turned on for our NT Workstations and Servers but not our
> >NetWare Servers but the capacity is the same for both tapes (they are in
> >separate storage pools).
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Mark Remeta
> >Seligman Data Corp.
> >100 Park Avenue
> >New York, NY 10017
> >(212)716-2810