Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 10:57:12
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Andre Rossouw <andre AT arnet.co DOT za>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:54:39 -0400
> Could there be any other reason you may think of (possibly outside of
> bacula) that would cause a drive to think it's written more than it has,
> or for the job to start at the wrong point on the tape?
>

LTO media does not work that way. To write from beginning to end it
does multiple passes of the entire tape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Tape_layout

John

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