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Backup size bigger than disksize???

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How is it possible that sometimes there is more bytes written to tape than there is diskcapacity??

For example i Have a disk of 260Gb and on tape is written 300Gb??
 
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This is due to compression. Sometimes files that are uncompressable will blowup in size instead of decreasing.
 
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Could be a block size issue. What sort of format are the files in? If they are all small flat files, they can take up more room than you think.



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