This is almost certainly not the same as the problem you are having, but I recently had an issue on a Windows server with Seagate Backup Exec, and a 100/200gb LTO drive was reporting tapes as being full after backing up about 74gb (before compression) of data.
Rebooted the server and drive, and nothing changed. Everything reported that compression was enabled but the drive was consistently reporting 0.7:1 compression ratio - files were getting bigger!!! Replacing the drive cured the problem, ~150gb to a tape now. I think it was broken in such a way that it thought it was using 50/100gb tapes, even though they were always being reported as 100/200gb. James > Hi, > > I have a HP Dat Storage 72/36 (DDS 4) and I have installed Bacula > 1.38.9 (02 May 2006). > Bacula works very well, but I have a problem with compression hardware > of my DAT. > > If I check compression of my DAT with the command mt -f /dev/nst0 > datcompression (after a umount command from bconsole) I get: > > Compression on. > > I have a Backup of 38 GB (There are various type of files > (doc,xls,mpeg...) ). > When I run the Job for that backup, I must > insert two tape!!! > In the first Tape there's a 36GB, and remaining GB in the second tape. > > The compression seems not to work. > How can I check if the compression is active and working during a job? > > Can you help me? > > Thanks. > > > > Andrea Soracchi > Netbuilder S.r.l. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
