[Nottingham] Re: Tape Backup failure

[Tom Bird]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 11:51, David Wolfson wrote:

> So I've solved the problem, but am still confused. If the backup creates a tarball of ~10Gb, and the tapes say 24Gb on the side, why does it fill up the tape?  How can I find the real capacity of the tape?  

dds3 is 12 gig.  You probably have a dds3 drive, they're often marketed
as 24 gig, just as dds2 is marketed as 8 gig (it's really 4), and dds4
as 40 gig (you guessed it, it's really 20).

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tom

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