Re: [Bacula-users] Activating LTO-4 Compression

2015-07-08 Thread Alan Brown
On 08/07/15 15:03, John Drescher wrote: > Is your dataset already compressed (zip, mp3, mpeg, jpeg ...)? Do you > have bacula software compression enabled? > > How large are the files that bacula is writing to the tape? The default is small, which leads to high overheads. Consider increasing it t

Re: [Bacula-users] Activating LTO-4 Compression

2015-07-08 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hello João, By default hardware compression is enabled on tape libraries. You can confirm this with a tapeinfo command. Best regards, Ana Em qua, 8 de jul de 2015 às 10:53, João Kuchnier escreveu: > Hi everyone! > > We use LTO-4 tapes with a Dell Autoloader. These tapes must backup > 800GB-1.6T

Re: [Bacula-users] Activating LTO-4 Compression

2015-07-08 Thread John Drescher
Is your dataset already compressed (zip, mp3, mpeg, jpeg ...)? Do you have bacula software compression enabled? John On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:43 AM, João Kuchnier wrote: > Hi everyone! > > We use LTO-4 tapes with a Dell Autoloader. These tapes must backup > 800GB-1.6TB.Unfortunatelly, our tapes

[Bacula-users] Activating LTO-4 Compression

2015-07-08 Thread João Kuchnier
Hi everyone! We use LTO-4 tapes with a Dell Autoloader. These tapes must backup 800GB-1.6TB.Unfortunatelly, our tapes are getting FULL with a bit less than 800GB. Is there anyway that I can activate hardware compression or anything I can do with bacula do resolv this? Thanks! João Kuchnier -