Re: Theoretical question

2008-08-09 Thread Aaron J. Grier
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:38:25PM -0700, Steffan Vigano wrote: the LTO tapes only hold 100GB natively, and you can't backup a file system with dump that's larger then the actual capacity of the tape. [...] A) Was there any truth to his original statement? only if compression is not used, and

Re: Theoretical question

2008-08-09 Thread Frank Smith
Aaron J. Grier wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:38:25PM -0700, Steffan Vigano wrote: the LTO tapes only hold 100GB natively, and you can't backup a file system with dump that's larger then the actual capacity of the tape. [...] A) Was there any truth to his original statement? only if

Re: Theoretical question

2008-08-08 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Steffan Vigano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because the LTO tapes only hold 100GB natively, and you can't backup a file system with dump that's larger then the actual capacity of the tape. .. A) Was there any truth to his original statement? Nope -- that was a