Hey there!

New question for you, about job compression (on tapes)
I'm running Bacula 7.4.4 server, with a 5.2.6 client (and PG db)

My client has 1.3 To to backup, i'm having an LTO4 drive, meaning 800Go native, 
1.6To compressed, so I've set my pool to have a Maximum Volume Bytes to 1600G
I've read on Bacula docs that for tapes, it's better not to configure 
compression in FileSet, and leave the hardware part do the compression

So what I did (as docs said) is to 
- cat /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/default_compression which has "1" value
+
root@server:~# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'TANDBERG'
Product ID: 'LTO-4 HH        '
Revision: 'U519'
Attached Changer API: No
SerialNumber: 'HU1023AMW9'
MinBlock: 1
MaxBlock: 16777215
SCSI ID: 1
SCSI LUN: 0
Ready: yes
BufferedMode: yes
Medium Type: Not Loaded
Density Code: 0x46
BlockSize: 0
DataCompEnabled: yes
DataCompCapable: yes
DataDeCompEnabled: yes
CompType: 0x1
DeCompType: 0x1
BOP: yes
Block Position: 0
Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: 800226
Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: 800226
ActivePartition: 0
EarlyWarningSize: 0
NumPartitions: 0
MaxPartitions: 0

So the compression seems to be enabled here

The fact is, when I run my backup, only ~1.1 To is used on the tape before 
being Full
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+-----------+
| mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes          | volfiles | 
volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten         | 
expiresin |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+-----------+
|       2 | xxxxxxxx   | Full      |       1 | 1,090,410,854,400 |    1,090 |   
 2,592,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | LTO-4     | 2019-01-21 03:25:59 | 
2,569,770 |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+-----------+

On the error mail, I can see that 
21-Jan 03:26 server-sd JobId 3: End of medium on Volume "xxxxxxxxx" 
Bytes=1,090,410,854,400 Blocks=16,902,449 at 21-Jan-2019 03:26.
The number of blocks is almost the same than in the tapeinfo command. 

Is the "problem" coming from here ? 
Anything I can configure to have more that 1.1To used ?

Thank you!

-----------

Pool {
  Name = QUOT
  Pool Type = Backup
  Volume Retention = 30 days
  Storage = Lecteur_LTO4
  Recycle = yes
  AutoPrune = yes
  RecyclePool = QUOT
  Maximum Volume Bytes = 1600G
}

Storage {
  Name = Lecteur_LTO4
  Password = --
  Address = server
  SDPort = 9103
  Device = Lecteur_LTO4
  Media Type = LTO-4
}

Device {
  Name = Lecteur_LTO4
  Archive Device = /dev/nst0
  Media Type = LTO-4
  LabelMedia = no
  Random Access = no
  AutomaticMount = yes
  RemovableMedia = no
  AlwaysOpen = yes
}


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