This may be a question about the tapes, but someone in this forum may have an idea. I use DDS3 and DDS4 tapes. BE doesn't seem to use the full capacity of these tapes. For instance I have an HP autoloader device with 6 DDS slots. If I put four DDS4 tapes in, and one DDS3 I should have up to 184G compressed.
The log indicates that hardware compression is enabled, but I'm getting far less storage out of those tapes. I have less than 130G total to backup, but BE stops at around 126G after the last tape and gives a message that the next media has already been used in the same operation. 126G is nowhere near the theoretical 184G that the tapes should allow.
Any ideas?
thanks.
Joe
The log indicates that hardware compression is enabled, but I'm getting far less storage out of those tapes. I have less than 130G total to backup, but BE stops at around 126G after the last tape and gives a message that the next media has already been used in the same operation. 126G is nowhere near the theoretical 184G that the tapes should allow.
Any ideas?
thanks.
Joe