> Has anyone heard of getting more capacity out of an LTO-4 tape than it is > rated for? Or are the byte amounts inflated, possibly, by artificially > counting skipped-over file systems? I got several messages like "/boot is a > different filesystem. Will not descend from / into /boot", but you would > think that it wouldn't count those in the overall storage amount. I > essentially just want to know if these figures are real, and if I'm just > getting an awesome compression ratio, or if something else is going on. >
Yes. I have fit over 1.8 TB on an LTO2 tape.. This happens if my backups set includes mostly highly compressible data and / or sparse files. My average over all backups (120+ LTO2 tapes) however is about 1:5 to 1. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
