On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 at 1:38pm, Scott Sanders wrote > OK I know that's a bad thing to say around here BUT...
No, not really. > ufsdumps (level 0 every night) to tape using amanda. My question is, > since the drive is handling the compression what tape length should I be > specifying in my tapetype definitions? For example should I use 35000 > mbytes or 70000 mbytes for a DLT-7000 with 35GB of native capacity? Or > maybe something in between just to make sure I don't run out f tape? Everybody's favorite answer -- it depends. How compressible is your data? Our /home partitions here compress on average about 50% in software. Our raw RF data on the RAID does *not* hardware compress in my AIT1 drive. Start with some compression estimate based on your data, and lower the length if you consistently hit EOT. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University