Falk Sauer <falk <at> hb-fein.de> writes: > > Hi Ralf, > > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 writes Ralf: > > > > we are using Bacula 2.0.2 on Suse Linux with the Tandberg tape drive DLT-V4 > > and DLTtape VS1 cartridges. Unfortunately it´s not clear to me which "media > > type" I should use to have the highest effort. Concerning the manual the > > cartridge can hold 160G uncompressed / 320G compressed on DLT-V4 drives but > > the cartridge is always marked full at approx. 35G. > > > > Which media type should I use? > > The media-type statement in conf is afair only a description/name for same > medium-types/class. > If you have a DLT-VS1 Tape medium, name the media type DLT-VS1 and your V4 > name can DLT-V4. This is only a Name for _same_ media types thats going on a > (one or more) special Storage. If you use 2 media types in one Tape drive use > one media-type for them. Media Type has imho no side effects to any max > volume size params. That's all you can also find in the documentation. > > Your Problem has imho a other cause. Have you defined any Volume size? remove > it for testing. > Have you initially rewinded your tape and a > mt weof -f /dev/nst0 > making before you labeled the medium? > Have you a new Tape for testing or a old one, often used with errors? > Can you write more uncompressed bytes with tar or cpio to this tape? > > regards > Falk >
Hi Falk, thanks for your reply. I´ve always use new sealed cartridges of Tandberg. But in the initial setup process I have not rewind the mediums with "mt weof -f /dev/nst0". Is this also necassary with new cartridges? Here an example of my problem: A weekly marked cartridge was full at 6GB. I have delete the catalog in Bacula and after I delete the content of the cartridge with the command "mt -f /dev/st0 erase". Then I label the medium in Bacula again and wrote data to it. Now the cartridge is market full at 12,5GB. Perhaps I have a lack of tape geometry? Best regards, Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
