>>>>> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:01:00 -0800, Tauren Mills said: > > I'm not having file size issues of 17GB on disk. I'm talking about > the data written to tape is about 17GB or 18GB. It seems like the > tape drive isn't compressing the data. But if it isn't, why would it > not get closer to 20GB? Or is there some sort of 2-3GB overhead > incurred in the backup process?
It sounds like you are writing incompressible data (maybe already compressed?) with the tape drive set to compress. DAT compression always expands the data by >10% in these cases :-( __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
