On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Rodrigo Ferraz <rodrigo.fer...@conceptnetservices.com> wrote: > Hi John. No software compression is enabled in bacula. Files are basically > compressible files, such as MS Office, engineer drawings, images, text files, > etc. Just a fraction of them are compressed files (.ZIP and .RAR), not more > than 5%. > > Regarding your second comment I guess it could be the case and it is also > worth of some more analysis. When bacula reaches the end of the tape, does it > tell you or log the block where it has stopped? I know that a 'mt -f > /dev/nst0 status' would return the current block position, but I would like > to know if bacula does it too. Also, is there a way to check how many total > blocks the operating system or bacula are seeing on the tape? Regarding this > last question, is tapeinfo's MinBlock/MaxBlock information reliable enough to > conclude that this tape has a total of 16,777,215 blocks? >
There are a variable # of blocks because of compression and other factors. These min and max blocks are the sizes. 1 byte minimum block you can tell the tape drive to write. 16MB maximum block you can tell the tape drive to write. The default I believe is 64KB. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
