On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Gary Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> A question about ufsdump to LTO tape
>
...
> Is there any way of determining the "post compression" size of the data on 
> the tape ? thus enabling me to determine how much (what percentage) of my LTO 
> tape I am actually using

I'm not sure there is. I'm sure there are some tapes that you can query,
but I can't find much out about that.

> I realise that I could compress the data before it goes to the tape but the 
> overhead in CPU and time will reduce my backup window too much and therefore 
> is not an option

That's not obvious. The data rate you show is pretty low, less than
10M/s, which is
only a fraction of what any LTO tape can take. Pretty well any worthwhile CPU
ought to be able to compress the data at that rate

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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