Dan Langille wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Tom Allison wrote: > >> Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not >> provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to >> write across multiple tapes. >> >> Is this still true? >> >> So if I'm looking at a tape drive that says it is an 80/204GB type, I >> should use 80GB for my calculations? > > Compression is a hardware issue. It is not done by the OS. > > What calculations? >
So I can expect that whatever is under the hood for Bacula to get me some compression (I agree with the 1:1.5) for the tape drive. I'm trying to see how much space I need to back up three macbooks and three debian servers. Using my own macbook as the worse case situation I have 20GB in $HOME, 21GB in /opt, and 66GB used in total. Sorting out junk and stuff that I can reinstall via ports, I have 40-50GB of usable space that I'll eventually need to keep backed up. As a guess I assumed 1.5 to 2.0 times more space in a backup of said computer. So this means I should have ~80GB for one macbook. Something like that. Those calculations? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
