2009/7/16 Eduardo Sieber <sie...@gmail.com>: > Hello people! > > I Have a bacula verion backup-dir Version: 2.4.4 (28 December 2008) > i486-pc-linux-gnu debian 5.0, intalled on a Ubuntu 9.1 server. I have 2 tape > drives attached on this server (A DLT 40/80Gb and a sony SDX470V 40/102 GB). > > I've ran btape on both tapes and everything is fine on the test. > > So, I have a job, and the estimate command for this job says: > 000 OK estimate files=94902 bytes=58,095,727,131 > > Something about 56Gb, that fits on my AIT tape right? > > > So, runing this job, I got this message: > Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: > Storage: "AIT-1" (/dev/nst0) > Pool: Semanal > Media type: AIT-1 > 15-Jul 09:52 backup-sd JobId 8: Job Semanal.2009-07-15_06.51.40.17 waiting. > Cannot find any appendable volumes. > > This way I think: The tape is full and bacula is requesting a new one to > finish the job. After this, I proceed the command estimate at the Storage > daemon, and I got: > > Running Jobs: > JobId 8 Job Semanal.2009-07-15_06.51.40.17 is running. > Backup Job started: 15-Jul-09 15:58 > Files=66,399 Bytes=48,242,126,113 Bytes/sec=845,789 Errors=0 > Files Examined=66,399 > Processing file: > /samba/Publica/FUUUTBOOOL/FUTEBOL_SDAB/Sdab2_x_PM1/parte_18.MPG > SDReadSeqNo=5 fd=5 > > Director connected at: 16-Jul-09 07:48 > > He writes abut 40GB And get the tape full. But with HW compression it must > writes 100GB! > NO, that is wrong. 100GB is an overly optimistic estimate and will only happen if you backup only text files. Since you are getting 48GB compression is definitely on. Although I would expect to fit 60GB of data on your AIT tape on average.
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