Thanks John for all the replies.
2011/5/11 John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com>
> > And if the tapel fill 2.4TB?
> >
>
> That is totally fine. Remember compression is variable.On a text only
> data set you can get greater than 5 to 1 compression. On a dataset
> with already compressed data you will likely get no compression at all
> so the tape will be full at ~400 GB. The 800 number quoted by the
> maufacturer is only the manufacturer expected value. Its not any kind
> of limit. Also in most real world data sets you will not actually
> achieve that.
>
> --
> John M. Drescher
>
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