Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:48:18 -0400, Ryan Novosielski said:
> If the data is larger, then less fits on a tape :-) > > Remember that "larger" here means that the crappy expanding DDS4 compression > has caused more bits to be written to the tape than were written to the drive > by Bacula. Hence Bacula writes 17.8GB, which expands to more than 20GB (the > tape capacity) on the tape. Absolutely correct, it seems. My 19.9GB backup now fits on this tape when running uncompressed. >> Any hints for what to try here? I am formatting the tape now to make >> sure that the capacity is correct (though this idea may be a holdover >> from when I was using DLT's, which seemed to be forward and backward >> compatible). >> >> If I am formatting /dev/rmt/1 instead of 1cbn, does that somehow turn >> off compression? > > You probably want to use /dev/rmt/1bn to get the other flags correct. > See man st. /dev/rmt/1lbn (L as in Larry) was the key. /dev/rmt/1bn just wrote to the drive using whatever mode it was already in. -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
