On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 09:20:18PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> the gaps in my knowledge seem to close slowly sometimes...
>
> Anyway...
>
> 1 - during backup - first tape has filled - apparently ejected (I am
> doing this remotely) but no email from 'chg-manual' which from reading
> the code within, should be coming but hasn't. I do get summaries after
> completion of backup process - is there something I need to do to make
> the request for tape swap email?
I don't know, never used chg-manual
> 2 - I am using a Sony SDT-9000 - which by the way, if anyone is
> interested - results from tapetype...
> define tapetype unknown-tapetype {
> comment "just produced by tapetype program"
> length 9675 mbytes
> filemark 88 kbytes
> speed 762 kps
> }
You did not follow the tapetype instructions and run it with the
hw compession off. Your results are without value unless you
run tapetype with no hw compression.
> anyway...I figure it's better to use the hardware compression and forget
> the software compression - Agreed?
I'm interested to know why 'you' figure that way. You will find
different opinions, but I'd like to know the reason for yours.
> Do I adjust the numbers of the 'length?'
> Does the length of 9675 seem small for a DDS-3 (125 meter / supposedly
> 12/24 Gigabyte or does formatting / filemarks / labels /etc cut 20%?
Adjusting the value of a meaningless number is an exercise in futility.
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