Re: [Bacula-users] compression with lto?

2023-05-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 5/17/23 12:52, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I've LTO tape that work in very dusty environment by at least 6 years. Istead of dust, i've found that setting properly spooling and buffers prevent the spinup/spindown effect, that effectively can be very stressful... Yes, I went to great lengths to try

Re: [Bacula-users] compression with lto?

2023-05-17 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... > I have to admit I found the cost of the media for the last LTO > generation I used (LTO4) to be secondary to the cost of replacing drive > after drive after drive as they failed, because in my experience LTO > drives fail very quickly outsid

Re: [Bacula-users] compression with lto?

2023-05-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 5/17/23 11:48, Dr. Thorsten Brandau wrote: I decided to use the softwarecompression instead, as this actually compresses the files. At last it means 1.4:1 for me, which is a lot better than uncompressed backup (LTO9 tapes are very expensive...). I have to admit I found the cost of the medi

Re: [Bacula-users] compression with lto?

2023-05-17 Thread Dr. Thorsten Brandau
Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users schrieb am 11.05.23 um 20:45: On 5/10/23 21:49, Dr. Thorsten Brandau wrote: Hi I use an lto-9 drive for backup. I activated hardware compression on the tape (i think) but all the logs of bacula show a tape change at 18TB which should be the native (uncompressed)