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

2007-03-29 09:51:49
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 15:51:49 +0200
Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) <JMARTI05 at intersil.com> wrote:

> There's no way to tell exactly how much more data a single tape will
> hold, since anything better than 100GB (in your example) is compression
> and compression varies by file type.

Yes, I know. I'm not looking for an exact number. I don't know how
LTO tapes exactly work, but I suppose that the tape is written now
until a certain "position". If the tape is 609 meter long, it might be
written up to 550 meters, which would be about 90%. Or is that assumption
completely off?

Alexander Skwar