On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:56 AM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have installed Bacula Win 3.0.1 under Windows XP without problems. >> >> When i make a folder backup (size 190 Go on my hard disk), Bacula ask for a >> second tape (tape one is full with 190,806,491,136 VolBytes). >> >> DltSage utility report : compression is on and 335 Gb are used. >> >> I have tried with "Minimum Block Size = 32768 Maximum Block Size = 32768", >> the problem is the same. >> >> My DLT-V4 has the latest firmware (v10) and the latests windows drivers >> (4.3.33). >> >> Can someone help me ? >> > > That looks perfectly fine to me. I mean 190 GB is greater 160GB. You > do realize that compression depends on the files you back up and if > some of them are already compressed (.zip, .jpg ...) you will not get > close to the often highly optimistic compression rate that > manufacturers state. I expect 1.5:1 on average for drives that state > 2:1. >
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