Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-20 Thread John Drescher
> The files are copied to tape files created by the bacula. Which are > compressed: > So then what you are seeing is the expected result. Remember you generally do not get good compression ratios on a second (or subsequent) compression of a data set. After the first pass most of the redundancy has

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-20 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
The files are copied to tape files created by the bacula. Which are compressed: Filset: Include {Options {Signature = MD5; compression = GZIP5} . What we have are two sets of backup: 1.-copied to hard disk files Bacula 2.-these same files copy them to tape. To confirm you have everythin

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/18/11 02:24, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin wrote: > Nothing, it still does not copy more than 417 GB ... If you're getting 417GB onto a 400GB tape, you're getting compression. You're just not getting MUCH of it. What kind of data are you backing up? Not all data compresses well. English te

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-18 Thread John Drescher
> Nothing, it still does not copy more than 417 GB ... > I believe 417GB shows that compression is on since the tape is 400 GB. What are you using as a source to this copy? If it is a compressed format you will fit close to the native size of 400GB if it is text you will fit between 1 and 2TB. Al

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-18 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin wrote: > So if I have understood correctly > 1 .- # mt-f / dev/nst0 WEOF > 2 .- # mt-f / dev/nst0 compression 1 > 3 .- verify that compression is enabled -> tapeinfo-f / dev/sg5 > .. > Product Type: Tape Drive > Vendor ID: 'HP' > Produ

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-17 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
Nothing, it still does not copy more than 417 GB ... The truth is that I dont know what else to look, if I see no option but what does is try to mount the device copies LTO-3 in windows to see if the backup software that comes with the product I may use the hardware compression ... Honestly, I do

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-17 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
So if I have understood correctly 1 .- # mt-f / dev/nst0 WEOF 2 .- # mt-f / dev/nst0 compression 1 3 .- verify that compression is enabled -> tapeinfo-f / dev/sg5 .. Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'HP' Product ID: "Ultrium 3-SCSI" Review: 'Q24D' Attached Changer: No SerialNumber: 'HU11039DWP'

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread John Drescher
> # tapeinfo-f / dev/sg5 > ... > DataCompEnabled: yes > ... This means compression is on and is being used. Although remember if you had compression off and then wrote anything to a tape then tried to turn compression on that tape will not be compressed because you can not toggle compression on o

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Arunav Mandal
In my case it is 1 and still no results. Arunav. > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:53:49 + > From: r...@campbell-lange.net > To: jarodrig...@cgi.es > CC: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed > > Try some

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 14/01/11, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin (jarodrig...@cgi.es) wrote: > I tried it and no longer works. I see that when I run: > # mt-f / dev/nst0 compression 1 > compression is enabled: > # tapeinfo-f / dev/sg5 > ... > DataCompEnabled: yes > ... > > But by launching the copy tape is uncompress

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
Thanks for the reply. I tried it and no longer works. I see that when I run: # mt-f / dev/nst0 compression 1 compression is enabled: # tapeinfo-f / dev/sg5 ... DataCompEnabled: yes ... But by launching the copy tape is uncompressed ... Do not let the copy over 400 GB (800 GB compressed). 2011/

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Try something along the lines of man mt or mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 1 http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=m/mt On 14/01/11, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin (jarodrig...@cgi.es) wrote: > nobody can make any comments? > The truth is that he thought there were people on the l

[Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
nobody can make any comments? The truth is that he thought there were people on the list who could help me. Apparently not. Greetings l -- l -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various mal

[Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-13 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
Hi list, A few months ago we were talking about a problem of compression on LTO-3 device "LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data / premature end of tape space" ( http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users @ lists . sourceforge.net/msg43952.html). It appears that the problem was resolved by updating the dri