Networker

Re: [Networker] SL500 tape library issues

2011-05-25 17:45:10
Subject: Re: [Networker] SL500 tape library issues
From: Eugene Vilensky <evilensky AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:44:06 -0500
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Werth, Dave <dave.werth AT garmin DOT com> 
wrote:
> Bingo said:
>
> "Otherwise you will never be able to write a LTO5 tape to it max. capacity"
>
> I think this is wrong.  NetWorker will always write to the end of a tape 
> regardless of what it thinks the size of the tape is.  What size Networker 
> thinks the tape is just affect the percentage full display.

Seconding this observation.  Our lovely "LTO2" tapes created when NW
7.1 (i think; many admins ago) did not support LTO3...
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1187 GB full 07/10/2011   0 KB    65    200 GB
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