LTO Usage

[uadmin]

Dear All,

I am a bit confused that when I look in /nsr/logs/messages i get the message that 'LTO Ultrium tape MONTHLY.TP1 used 276 GB of 100 GB capacity' how could this be.

I think it may be this is because of compression but would appreciate if someone could explain this to me.

Thanks

Simon Peter Wickham
Email: s.wickham@zoom.co.uk

 

[605]

Yes, if you have high compressible data this will happen. NW writes to the physical end of tape but until then you might even save n times on what it actually the "volume default capacity" which you set indirectly by selecting the device type.