On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:59:07PM -0500, Eric Trager wrote:
> I found out that I generally could get ~70 GB on a DLT-IV tape if I used
> hardware compression, so I set amanda's tape length to 60 GB and started
> backing up big partitions.
>
> I was able to backup 55 and 52 GB partitions, but the
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Eric Trager wrote:
>Is what hardware compression can do with files variable? In this case,
>with the failure, it's a lot of oracle data, some of it is gzipped.
This is precisely why I do not use hardware compression. The
effectiveness of the compression varies heavily based
I just wanted to find out if any of you have seen this.
I found out that I generally could get ~70 GB on a DLT-IV tape if I used
hardware compression, so I set amanda's tape length to 60 GB and started
backing up big partitions.
I was able to backup 55 and 52 GB partitions, but there's one 50 G
