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Tape size

Bharath_Achar
Level 6

Hello,

Is there any command to check below information on a NBU tape ????? 

Total Capacity
Used Capacity 
Available Capacity
Compression Ratio

 

 

Regards,

Bharath

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mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

NBU does not know about the capacity of a tape.  As far as NBU is concerned a single tape can hold an unlimited amount of data.  Therefore, there are no values for Total / Available Capacity.

NBU only marks a tape as full, when it is told the tape is full by the tapedrive, this is why NBU has no knowledge of capacity - it doesn't need to know.

The compression is done by the tape drive, and so NBU does not have information for this either, as the tape drive does not pass this info back.

We do know how much is written though - bpmedialist is one way to see this.  The Tape reports in the GUI is another.

 

 id     rl  images   allocated        last updated      density  kbytes restores
           vimages   expiration       last read         <------- STATUS ------->
           On Hold
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
R0TP01  10      1   08/20/2012 10:44  08/20/2012 10:44     4mm      110752     0
                1   08/21/2012 10:44        N/A
 
 
Martin

Martin

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mph999
Level 6
Employee Accredited

NBU does not know about the capacity of a tape.  As far as NBU is concerned a single tape can hold an unlimited amount of data.  Therefore, there are no values for Total / Available Capacity.

NBU only marks a tape as full, when it is told the tape is full by the tapedrive, this is why NBU has no knowledge of capacity - it doesn't need to know.

The compression is done by the tape drive, and so NBU does not have information for this either, as the tape drive does not pass this info back.

We do know how much is written though - bpmedialist is one way to see this.  The Tape reports in the GUI is another.

 

 id     rl  images   allocated        last updated      density  kbytes restores
           vimages   expiration       last read         <------- STATUS ------->
           On Hold
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
R0TP01  10      1   08/20/2012 10:44  08/20/2012 10:44     4mm      110752     0
                1   08/21/2012 10:44        N/A
 
 
Martin

Martin

Bharath_Achar
Level 6

Thanks a lot Martin!!!!