[Gllug] How much space left on a tape...

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 20:22 +0100, salsaman wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> >...is there a way to find this out. I am happily compressing 14GB of
> >stuff on to a 4GB tape at the moment using .tar.bz2 but fear that, as
> >data expands, I'll shortly need to look at an alternative - the question
> >is: how shortly?
> >
> >  
> >
> I don't know the answer to that, but maybe you should use tar -L ?
> 
>  From the manpage:
> 
>        -L, --tape-length=NUMBER
>               change tape after writing NUMBER x 1024 bytes
> 
> 

Sorry, my original message was unclear. What I mean is I am doing weekly
or so backups on 4GB tapes - the DAT drive capacity is 4GB. How do I
know how close I am to this routine needing to be changed?

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