Guest langjr15@uwgb.edu Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Quick question... I ran into this setup and it seems really weird to me. A company has a Dell Powervault 114T single drive unit that runs SuperDLT Tape 1's. For some reason they are bening asked during backup to switch tapes. The funny thing is that it asks right at 160 which should be the uncompressed size of the tape right? Compression should get us well above 300 gig. I have a Dell powervault 110T at work that runs the same tapes and I regularlily even get more than 320 out of a single tape. Besides telling the job to compress are there other settings somewhere else to turn this on? THanks
Guest Jeff Stockamp Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Re: Veritas backup exec 10 Look at the properties of the drive in Backup Exec and make sure hardware compression is enabled. - Jeff <langjr15@uwgb.edu> wrote in message news:9e81e555-4cf4-40e6-9aeb-9e19ef2ebd90@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > Quick question... > > I ran into this setup and it seems really weird to me. A company has > a Dell Powervault 114T single drive unit that runs SuperDLT Tape 1's. > For some reason they are bening asked during backup to switch tapes. > The funny thing is that it asks right at 160 which should be the > uncompressed size of the tape right? Compression should get us well > above 300 gig. I have a Dell powervault 110T at work that runs the > same tapes and I regularlily even get more than 320 out of a single > tape. > > Besides telling the job to compress are there other settings somewhere > else to turn this on? > > THanks
Guest langjr15@uwgb.edu Posted January 17, 2008 Posted January 17, 2008 Re: Veritas backup exec 10 On Jan 17, 10:29 am, "Jeff Stockamp" <jeff.stock...@dodgeit.com> wrote: > Look at the properties of the drive in Backup Exec and make sure hardware > compression is enabled. > > - Jeff > > <langj...@uwgb.edu> wrote in message > > news:9e81e555-4cf4-40e6-9aeb-9e19ef2ebd90@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com... > > > > > Quick question... > > > I ran into this setup and it seems really weird to me. A company has > > a Dell Powervault 114T single drive unit that runs SuperDLT Tape 1's. > > For some reason they are bening asked during backup to switch tapes. > > The funny thing is that it asks right at 160 which should be the > > uncompressed size of the tape right? Compression should get us well > > above 300 gig. I have a Dell powervault 110T at work that runs the > > same tapes and I regularlily even get more than 320 out of a single > > tape. > > > Besides telling the job to compress are there other settings somewhere > > else to turn this on? > > > THanks- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Yeah I checked the drive and its turned on, I also checked under the actual job preperties and it is set to Hardware compression. Do you think I should change it to "Hardware and if not available software" or maybe just software? Any other thoughts or places where I need to turn it on? The powervault 114t should support compression I would think....
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