[Nottingham] Re: Tape Backup failure

[David Wolfson]

Yup. It's DDS3.  Presumably they can get away with selling them like this as 

<quote>
a 12/24 tape can *only* carry 24GB of data if the data is compressed 
by the drive
<unquote>?

If this is the case I presume that I'm still better of doing the compression with tar, rather than letting the drive do it?

So much for the ronseal effect,
Dave
>
>
>>>> tom at marmot.org.uk 06/13/04 05:59pm >>>
>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).
>
>-- 
>tom
>
>you are huge!  that means you have huge guts!
>
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