>>>>> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:23:04 +0100 (BST), Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
Alan> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I had the same issue on my old debian box. It was always just writing >> around 33GB on the tape, never more.The data I try to backup are alot of Word-Documents and all different kind >> of sourcecode. So there should be at least some compression. >> I might try the software compression from bacula and see if that helps. >> But if you have some idea what else I could test I would be very glad. Alan> If you have the space, make a .tar of your expected backup stuff and then Alan> gzip it. this will give you an indication of the kind of compression Alan> ratios you might expect. I'm not sure what kind of compression DAT72 uses, but for DDS4 the compress program will give a closer idea of the hardware compression than gzip (i.e. it expands random/compressed data by 20%!). __Martin ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
