Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Does your system have the tapeinfo application? yeah it has (I installed it), but I get no useful output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes etc. You need

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > Does your system have the tapeinfo application? yeah it has (I installed it), but I get no useful output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Err

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
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Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> -- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > > Can you try the job with bacula gzip compression > set > > on with both new and old? > > I never tried it with SW compression on the tape > drive, because bacula > howto says you shouldn't use that when writing to a > tape drive. > > Should

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > Can you try the job with bacula gzip compression set > on with both new and old? I never tried it with SW compression on the tape drive, because bacula howto says you shouldn't use that when writing to a tape drive. Should I use it anyway? -- H

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
Can you try the job with bacula gzip compression set on with both new and old? John --- "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- quoting Alan Brown -- > > > SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of > storing 50GB or 100GB > > > (compressed) onto SLR tapes. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> Probably, but what it really comes down to is that > claims of 2:1 > compression ratios are rarely seen in real world > situations. > > I get about 1.1-1.2:1 on full backups, and data > incrementals, because the Exactly. I rarely get anywhere near 2:1 on my data (medical images) which is gener

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Alan Brown -- > > SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB > > (compressed) onto SLR tapes. > > Note that 100Gb is compressed and the raw capacity is 50Gb. I know, that was what I wanted to say... > > Now I have a bunch of newly bought SLR tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. Note that 100Gb is compressed and the raw capacity is 50Gb. Now I have a bunch of newly bought SLR tapes, but there I get an "out of space" erro

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with bacula and some SLR tapes. My server has an "TANDBERG SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. I have about 50GB+ data to save, so I want to use tape drive compressio

[Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-07 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a problem with bacula and some SLR tapes. My server has an "TANDBERG SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. I have about 50GB+ data to save, so I want to use tape drive compression. First, I used an "old" tape to store tho