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

[salsaman]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:

>
>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?
>
>  
>

So what are you asking ? How big is the backup ? Just copy it to a disk 
partition and ls -l.

Or do mean you are trying to predict when the file size will be > 4GB ?


Gabriel.

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