How much can these 100GB native tapes hold?
Can I really be getting this kind of compression?
Half a TB on one tape? Anyone else seeing this?
My real issue is with the Status. It says that the tape is still filling,
yet its Pct Util is only at 95%.
I don't get this. I thought that a tape ge
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I am not familiar with your tape units but when I started using Exabyte
Mammoth2 scsi drives and tapes, 60gb native, 150gb compressed I saw
exactly the same thing. Then the hammer dropped! I started getting some
fsr (forward search record) errors. In compressed mode the tapes were
able to hold mor
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Jim,
We see the same phenomenon with Oracle table files. We backup those files
to "7 GB" Magstar XL tapes, but the tape drive compresses the files to fit
as much as 24 GB on one tape. It actually put 32 GB once!
By contrast, the same drives compress our Domino data to fit 8.5 GB on a 7
GB tape
