Aptare Storage Console has a Media Forecasting Dashboard...that does this...sorta.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Piszcz, Justin > Sent: December 15, 2005 1:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding available tapes. > > > Basically, I wonder if NetBackup 6.0 will say, you will run > out of tapes > in 74 hours, you have 6 tapes left. > > Know any software out there that might do this? :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:35 PM > To: Piszcz, Justin; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding available tapes. > > Yeah - text stuff is pretty squishy - it'll get down there - I've seen > much > more than the average 2:1. My database backups only get > about 1.3:1 or > so, > not very compressible. > > It varies a lot by data type. > > ...and, yes, it's the amount *on* the tape - but that's disk > bytes sent > to > that tape, not tape bytes occupied. If you see 100G reported as being > on > the tape, it may only be taking up 50GB of actual tape media. Like I > said, > the amount remaining, given compression, is very hard to calculate. > > -M > > -----Original Message----- > From: Piszcz, Justin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding available tapes. > > > Interesting though, I use LTO2 which are 200/400GB, but with > compression, it ranges from 400-500gb on some tapes. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:00 PM > To: Piszcz, Justin; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding available tapes. > > bpmedialist will give you a count of how how many bytes are > on the tape > (kbytes column): > > > bpmedialist -U > Server Host = XXXXXXXXXXXXX > > id rl images allocated last updated > density kbytes > restores > vimages expiration last read > <------- STATUS > -------> > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > ---- > ---- > 004526 3 310 08/21/2005 03:40 12/11/2005 06:36 hcart2 > 61698920 > 0 > MPX 01/11/2006 06:36 N/A > > 004696 3 874 11/20/2005 02:37 12/12/2005 02:33 hcart2 > 318870566 > 0 > MPX 01/12/2006 02:33 N/A > > 004801 4 32 11/15/2005 19:54 11/15/2005 19:55 hcart2 > 81122987 > 0 > MPX 01/16/2006 19:55 N/A > > 005165 6 6 06/15/2005 19:33 06/15/2005 19:33 hcart2 > 19992648 > 2 > MPX 06/15/2006 19:33 07/11/2005 15:52 > > 005265 3 1874 06/10/2005 16:54 12/11/2005 06:01 hcart2 > 557969356 > 0 > MPX 01/11/2006 07:29 N/A > > After that, you're starting to guess. Because the amount of bytes per > tape > can vary by the compressibilty of the data, the total amount of bytes > actually stored on the tape can vary. The closest you can do is > calculate > some sort of average compression ratio by looking at full tapes, then > estimate based on that for your non-full tapes. Personally, > I'd do this > by > volume pool as my compressibility is going to vary a lot by > data source. > > > HTH - M > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Piszcz, > Justin > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:40 AM > To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question regarding available tapes. > > > Hello, > > I can easily see how many scratch tapes, those that have not been > written to > yet. However, I probably have several tapes that are currently not > fully > filled up, scratch tapes that had a few fragments written to it. Is > there > anyway to determine how full the tapes are? > > Justin. > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu