On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Frank Smith wrote:
> 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. The problem here is in whether you use hardware or software compression. The original question seemed to imply hardware compression, in which case there's just no way to know how much tape is really being used. If you need to keep close track of tape use you want to use software compression. Then the above will be true. If you just want to get the data on to the tape as quickly as possible, the easiest thing to do is to underestimate your tape capacity a bit and go with h/w compression. -Mitch
