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Re: How to use FULL capacity - cart TRAVAN NS20 ?

2003-03-13 16:57:04
Subject: Re: How to use FULL capacity - cart TRAVAN NS20 ?
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: "AMANDA User's List" <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:26:16 -0500
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:30:00PM -0300, Prods6 - AMANDA - Bkp Mannager wrote:
> Hi frinds and Amanda User's ...
> 
> Please ... Look ... I'm user of cart model TRAVAN NS20  for Full_bkp's,
> but I don't know why the taper don't use the full capacity of these
> tapes (20Gb).
> The max utilization is in 10Gb ... 

That is because the tapes native capacity is 10GB, not 20.
The manufacturer calls it 20 assuming the data compresses to 50%.

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