Danny Butroyd wrote: > Slartibartfast wrote: >> Not sure about your timeout error, but I've had two backups in a row >> cram 747GB and 757GB onto single Utrium LTO-2 tapes. Hella compression >> on big empty Oracle databases. ;) >> > Wow, thats pretty impressive. I am backing up a lot of text (html, > php), log files (huge amounts) and mysql databases so maybe that > accounts for it. Looks like I need to do more testing :)
As an FYI, to back up our MS SQL server 2k box, we use SQL Server's inbuilt backup stuff to dump to files. I found I could gzip these files and get about 90% compression ratios! This means that instead of having just one set of file dumps on the server waiting to be backed up, I can have the latest backups uncompressed and a week of compressed ones too before the disk fills up! These files are then backed up to tape by Bacula. As an aside, do you know of a general way to see how much of a tape is used when the drive is doing hardware compression? We are using 40/80G DLT4s in two DLT8000's, and our backups are pretty much sitting around the 40G mark. It would be interesting to see how close to filling the tapes we are... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may10.jpg ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
