Look for a line in your daily report in the NOTES section similar to: taper: tape daily05 kb 8452224 fm 52 [OK]
the number after 'kb' is the number of kbytes actually written to the tape. (At least that's my assumption, the number tracks pretty closely to the capacity of the tape if it hits EOM). Frank --On Monday, November 26, 2001 13:23:40 -0800 Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to tell how much of a tape I am really using? > > For example I have both AIT1 and AIT2 drives and I using 170M and 230M > tapes respectively. I write to the compressed device in both cases. I > set the lengths conservatively to 32000 mbytes for the AIT1 drives and > 66000 mbytes for the AIT2 drives. I would like to check periodically > and see how much of the tape I am actually using. Full backups are > already over 100 GB and disk usage is only going up so a reasonably > good estimate of actual usage tells me how much I can increase the > length values before allocating another tape to the backups. > > -- > -- Stephen Carville > UNIX and Network Administrator > Ace Flood USA > 310-342-3602 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
