Thanks for all of the help. It is greatly
appriciated!!!




--- Paul Langford <plangfor AT AB.BLUECROSS DOT CA> wrote:
> On my LTO2 tapes I am getting anything from 160GB to
> over680GB per tape.
> The backups that are primarily unix are getting the
> highest compression.
> Compression is done on the drives, not at the
> server/client level.
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Horwitz [mailto:stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:09 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] volume capacity part 2
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, adult swim wrote:
>
> >After feedback from the list I realized that I was
> >using data compression incorrectly by using
> hardware
> >compression as well as unix with compression
> >directives, that has been changed to hardware
> >compression only.
> >
> >In addition I verified that I have all 100/200 LTO
> >Ultrium tapes loaded in the Jukebox but....
> >
> >I am seeing tape capacity figures that are all over
> >the place. Some show Full at 181GB and 169GB and
> that
> >makes sense but I am also seeing some show Full at
> >335GB and 362GB which does not make sense.
> >
> >If I have a 100GB tape that should only be able to
> >show 200GB max compressed how am I getting figures
> >over 200GB? any ideas?
> >
> >Confused
>
> Different files compress differently (if at all).
> Some files, such as streaming video do not compress
> at all.
> Other files, such as text files compress quite well.
>
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