Re: [Bacula-users] DDS-4
On 11/2/06, weyerma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all,i have a prblem with my dds-4 drive.all tapes are only written to 20gb (uncompressed) and the tape fills.how can i turn the compression on, to fill all tapes up to 40gb ?Are you 100% sure that your data is compressible as you will not get any extra compression on already compressed files or random data? You can see if hardware compression is turned on by the use of the mt and I believe tapeinfo commands from the shell.John - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] DDS-4
Hi,
On 11/2/2006 4:04 PM, weyerma wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i have a prblem with my dds-4 drive.
> all tapes are only written to 20gb (uncompressed) and the tape fills.
> how can i turn the compression on, to fill all tapes up to 40gb ?
Do you want hardware- or software compression?
Arno
> my config:
>
> Device {
> Name = "Autochanger"
> Media Type = DDS-4
> Archive Device = /dev/st0
> Changer Device = /dev/sg1
> Changer Command = "/var/lib/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> AutoChanger = yes;
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> LabelMedia = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> }
>
>
>
> thanks for help
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[Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-users] DDS-4 Tape Low Capacity
Check if you have a "Maximum Volume Bytes" directive in your DIR.conf file or a "Maximum Volume Size" directive in your SD.conf file limiting the amount of data written to tape. /Jens > Dear All, > > > > I hope someone can shed some light on this. > > > > I have a Seagate DDS-4 drive (Osprey I think). I have TDK catridges that > claim to be 20/40GB (I guess the upper figure is with hardware data > compression). However, in use with Bacula and also when used with "fill" on > btape, I get a maximum of about 1,200,000,000 bytes written on each tape > before it reckons the tape is full. I was expecting to get about 20 times as > much data on a tape. > > > > Has anyone any ideas? > > > > Many thanks > > > > Catsmuvva (aka Nicole) > > > > > --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
