On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:17:33 AM McGraw, Robert P did opine:
JF,
Recently you sent me your tapetype for an lto4 drive. I have a question
about the length parameter.
An lto-4 tape has a non-compress length of ~800GB and in compress about
double. I know these are max values.
Gene,
Thanks for your information.
I tried the gzip way but it took too long on my backup server.
With my old LTO2 drive I took 90% of the compressed value and used that as the
length. With device-property LEOM true and part_size 40GB, I was
getting close to filling my tapes to 100%.
If I
* McGraw, Robert P rmcg...@purdue.edu [20110824 11:46]:
Gene,
Thanks for your information.
I tried the gzip way but it took too long on my backup server.
With my old LTO2 drive I took 90% of the compressed value and used that as
the length. With device-property LEOM true
On Wednesday, August 24, 2011 05:13:46 PM McGraw, Robert P did opine:
Gene,
Thanks for your information.
I tried the gzip way but it took too long on my backup server.
My iron here is beginning to took toward collecting SS one day, but it was
good when I built it from boxes of parts
