On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Robert X Weeks wrote:
> 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?
TR3 tapes are 1.6 GB.
Salesmen usually claims that every tapestreamer has double it's real
capacity, their "argument" is that compression will make everything half
as big.
That's of course bogus, since the compression ratio depends on the data
and can be everywhere from 1:1 to some incredible ratio. I have seen real
world database files that could be compressed to a 1:27 with gzip -4.
Tell that to your salesdroid and he will start claiming that his TR3
drives can store 42 GB ;-)
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