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[Veritas-bu] Howto check the approx. available space on a tape?

2007-03-29 03:43:00
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Howto check the approx. available space on a tape?
From: listen at alexander.skwar.name (Alexander Skwar)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:43:00 +0200
Hello.

I'm using NBU 6.0MP4 on Solaris 10 with LTO1 tapes. How can I check, how
much space is approximately left available on a tape? For example, I've
got a tape which now has about 175 GB written to it. How much more can it
hold? I do know that LTO1 holds 100 GB uncompressed. In my naive assumption,
I'd expect the tape to be filled to, say, 90%. Is there a way to actually
check that?

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar