Jon LaBadie wrote:
How are current users sizing their vtapes and what has
been their experience in disk usage?
I've divided my ~160GB removable disks into 5 vtapes each. I have a total of
8 DLEs, two of which are 40 GB (after compression) and the rest are no
larger than 2 GB. On the days
Kind of a best practice or common usage query.
For those of you using vtapes, how have you chosen
to specify the size of a single vtape?
A while ago, perhaps 1-2 yrs when vtapes were starting
to be used more regularly, the comments seemed to be
divide the available space by the number of vtapes.
On Thursday 02 February 2006 10:01, Jon LaBadie wrote:
Kind of a best practice or common usage query.
For those of you using vtapes, how have you chosen
to specify the size of a single vtape?
A while ago, perhaps 1-2 yrs when vtapes were starting
to be used more regularly, the comments seemed to
Jon LaBadie wrote:
Kind of a best practice or common usage query.
For those of you using vtapes, how have you chosen
to specify the size of a single vtape?
A while ago, perhaps 1-2 yrs when vtapes were starting
to be used more regularly, the comments seemed to be
divide the available space by
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Jon LaBadie wrote:
In contrast, when I 'played' with vtapes a year or more
earlier, I just specified a huge size, knowing it would
never be exceeded. However a possibility was that I
would run the file system out of space if many vtapes
were pretty full.
Indeed. Either
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:01:45AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
How are current users sizing their vtapes and what has
been their experience in disk usage?
Here is what I am currently doing:
size of vtapes is set to DVD size.
I have written a tape-changer with the capability to be set in
offline
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 04:39:47PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:
Note that when you write a dump to a vtape, and you hit EOT, the
last incomplete part of a dump is not erased, just like a real tape.
Yes, this is sub-optimal.
So, many incomplete parts on a too small vtapes do take up real
