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Shahin123
Level 6
12 years ago

no appendable (end marker unreadable)

Hi,   I have a tape that has no appendable (end marker unreadable) in its property and I cannot use it for backup and I understand that I have to reformat this tape. but this tape has some new ...
  • CraigV's avatar
    12 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Your HDD needs as much free space as you have written to disk with no compression. If you wrote 400GB to tape with 1:2 compression for instance, this equates to 480GB on disk...

    Duplicate to disk, and from there backup to tape as you have stated.

    Thanks!