On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Ben Laurie <b...@links.org> wrote: > I recently swapped out my LTO-2 drive for an LTO-3 drive, but I'm > still using LTO-2 tapes. > > The current tape is still going strong and the latest backup says: > > Last Volume Bytes: 607,752,327,168 (607.7 GB) > > which seems like quite a lot for a 200GB tape. Now, I realise the > drive can do compression, but with the old drive I never saw more than > ~400 GB on a single tape. > > Should I be suspicious? What exactly is Last Volume Bytes measuring?
I have over 1TB on a few 200GB LTO2 tapes. This is due the the high compression of the dataset. LastVolumeBytes is measuring the total bytes stored on the tape. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
