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

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, December 6, 2006 6:01 pm, Russell Howe wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:05:37AM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 23:19 +0100, salsaman wrote:
>> > 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?
>>
>> Thanks for the various suggestions. The answer seems to be - if I want
>> to do this simply (these are unattended backups that tend to run while I
>> am out of the house) there is no simple way - ie I cannot run a simple
>> command and have that emailed to me so when I get home I know the backup
>> might fail tomorrow/next time with the addition of another 1000 lkml
>> messages in the mix.
>>
>> I suppose I knew that all along, but just wanted to check
>
> I'm going to assume you're using hardware compression on the drive, so
> that the data you send to the drive is being compressed by the drive
> itself.
>
No, as a consequence of earlier advice on this list I am using bz2 and no
other compression.

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