The 3200 will only support 3.2gig with exact 2:1 compression, or better. If
you are trying to back up inherently incompressible material (eg .gz or .Z
files) then you will find that it will not back up the full 3.2gig.
It is a problem with ALL tape drives: they advertise the fact they can back
up x amount of data, but in the small print there is always a disclaimer
saying that this is 'with compression'.
I generally ignore these claims, and use the tape uncompressed (I have
several servers with DittoMaxPro drives in them, so I only back up a maximum
of 5 gigs at a time). - Unfortunately, I think that you may have to start
shrinking your backups :(
Barry Zubel
Technical Manager
City Mutual Ltd
www.citymutual.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert X Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 8:57 AM
Subject: How long is it?
>One of my clients has a CT3200 which I have now installed into their Linux
>server. As this is a 3200 I assumed that it would handle 3.2 Gb so the
>partitions were constructed accordingly Over the weekend I was doing a
>backup and the tape ran out after 1.6 Gb. I cant get the data on even with
>compressing.
>
>Are there different lengths of tape for the TR3. One thing is they have
>removed the labels. Could these be TR1 tapes?
>
>Ftape?
> Nice!
>
>
>Bob Weeks
>
