8mm vs. 4mm

mikeg@endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Michael Grabenstein) writes:

> I am not up on the compression 4mm tape drives, but I know there is

>an HP tape drive that can store up to 8gig, not sure on what tape. I assume

>120M tapes.

If you mean the HP35480A, yes the blurb says 8G on a 90M tape. However

in all my use of daily backups using dump(1) for the last year, I've never

managed to fit more than about 3.6Gb. Typically its 3.3Gb.

This using a block size of 200k bytes.

Ian D

[680 byte] By [CodeProf.com] at [2007-12-25 8:42:00]

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