> I don't know how to reply with the forum; i have create an account, but i > can't find how to do this. > > That's i don't understand is why an 320 GB cartridge contains only 190 GB. > But, it really is a 160GB native cartridge and anything more than that is a bonus. The 320GB is a guess based on if you have what the drive manufacturer assumes as a typical set of data.
Remember that compression is data dependent so you will never get exactly 320GB compressed on a 160GB native tape. Also remember that you typically can not compress data more than 1 time so if any of your files are compressed (.zip, .gz, .7z, .jpeg, .mp3, .mpeg ...) they will not compress much if at all. So if you were backing up 160GB of mpeg data expect that to fill an entire 160/320 tape. However if you are only backing up text files you would easily fit 500GB of text on that 160/320 tape. Can you post the answers to the questions Fabio asked you? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
