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Re: 2 3494 Tape libraries seem to have very different capacities. Any ideas?

2004-08-23 15:25:33
Subject: Re: 2 3494 Tape libraries seem to have very different capacities. Any ideas?
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:26:10 -0400
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>My problem is that 3494LOCAL has 62 scratch tapes available and
>3494REMOTE has 207 scratch tapes in it. ...

Hmmm... That's about 3:1, something of a "magic ratio" in tape drive
settings.  Might it be the case that one tape devclass has compression
defined and the other not?  This would account for TSM's basic statistics being
about equal for both, but the volumes count being so discrepant.

   Richard Sims

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