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Compressed Backup Size

Kev_Sharratt
Level 2
Hi

We hace recently upgraded our tape drive as the previous system 20/40 Gb DDS 4 was not backing up onto 1 tape overnight even though the compression was on. We are now using an AIT tape drive 40Gb native 104Gb compressed. I know that the compressed size is dependent on by how much the files will compress. We have quite a few Jpeg files which are already compressed and I would therefore not expect to achieve the full 104Gb. As I was to forward plan and wish to be aware if the tape is getting full so that I can consider other backup solutions, I would like to see the compressed file size so that I know what proportion of the 40Gb is used. The bits backed up stated in 8.6 is, I know the uncompressed size. How do I see the compressed size?

Many Thanks

Kev
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Ken_Putnam
Level 6
Use Software only for a couple of runs.

The ratio will not be exactly the same, but will be close, and will display at the end of each job step.

Kev_Sharratt
Level 2
Thanks Ken I'll try that

Regards, Kev