On 01/05/11 10:45, John Drescher wrote: >> Is there any way I can test the full capacity of tape with compression? >> > > That question does not make total sense. I mean compression is > dependent on the data you supply. On one tape you can get 5:1 on a > second tape you can get 1.1:1 depending on your data. For me I average > 1.5:1 compression. And that seems to be the expectation even though > the standard claims the overly optimistic 2:1.
All tape drive marketing claims assume 2:1 overall compression. My experience is that with my real-world data set, I get about 15% compression overall, i.e about 230GB on a 200/400GB LTO2 tape. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users