From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 03:34:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0C716A469 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 03:34:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6827B13C457 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 03:34:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) id l4T3YJib024341; Mon, 28 May 2007 22:34:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 22:34:19 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: perikillo Message-ID: <20070529033419.GN98411@dan.emsphone.com> References: <51d7a5160705281422i106691d5n55a14e85af4ccb35@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51d7a5160705281422i106691d5n55a14e85af4ccb35@mail.gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: how many data can i write to my tape, how to tested? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 03:34:47 -0000 In the last episode (May 28), perikillo said: > I'm running bacula 1.38.11 with one tape storage-works 232 200Gb. > But i start to get some errors about "Tape Full" like this: > > 28-May 04:30 bacula-dir: Start Backup JobId 1409, Job=MBXDBA-FD.2007-05-28_04.30.00 > 28-May 06:18 bacula-sd: End of Volume "FullTape-0009" at 184:1 on device "StorageWorks-232" (/dev/nsa0). Write of 64512 bytes got 0. > 28-May 06:18 bacula-sd: End of medium on Volume "FullTape-0009" Bytes=177,755,370,128 Blocks=2,755,390 at 28-May-2007 06:18. > 28-May 06:19 bacula-dir: There are no Jobs associated with Volume "FullTape-0010". Marking it purged. > 28-May 06:19 bacula-dir: Recycled volume "FullTape-0010" > > Them, he says that my tape is full, but calculating all clients, is > about 181GB, them why hi say that my tape is full? > > This is the reason i want to test my tape first, to see if the > problem is freebsd or bacula. Hope you could point how to fill my > tape with freebsd and see how much data can i write to my tape. An HP StorageWorks 232 is an LTO-1 drive, which has 100GB native capacity. The advertised 200GB capacity is with a 2:1 compression ratio: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/ultrium232/specs.html If you can only put 181GB of data on the tape, that just means you have some files that don't compress very well (gif/jpg images, gzipped files, etc). You should only get worried if your tape fills up after less than 100GB :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com