Hello, I apologize in advance if the question has already been answered or has become obsolete.
I am wondering what is the best size to declare for the lenght of the vtapes. Too long a vtape could lead to disk space being unused, but having too many small vtapes one or two directories created for each new vtape, and if many vtapes, the main directory containing them would not fit in a single inode; but the space left unused would be smaller. My understanding is that splitting a backup does not consume more space, so it is not the backup data that gets bigger, only what is surrounding it. If wee are not considering the overhead of computing the tape spliting, nor the possible extra I/O, if we only focus on the disk space, what would be the optimum size for the vtapes? Best regards, Olivier --
