Re: [Veritas-bu] Which tape drive type for DLT7000 tape drives and NetBackup 3.4
2007-11-06 12:33:26
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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Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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