On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:13:49AM -0500, Brendon Colby wrote:
> 1. If I have a 16 tape tapecycle, and a dumpcycle of 7, does this mean I
> effectively have 16 days of backups?
Yes.
> As in, I can do a restore of up to 16
> days?
Yes.
> 2. If I disable hardware compression and use software compression, how would
> that affect my tapetype definition?
>
> define tapetype DLT8000 {
> comment "Quantaum (IBM) DLT-8000"
> length 37482 mbytes
> filemark 2362 kbytes
> speed 5482 kps
> }
With SW compression, length should be the native tape capacity (40GB in
the case of a DLT-8000). 37.5GB is close enough for now.
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