Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

[Arunav M. <di...@ho...>]

Since I don't have a proper stinit.def will the tape function properly? I
have called Tandberg and HP and nobody can help me regarding this.

Arunav.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Brown [mailto:aj...@ms...] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 1:34 PM
To: Phil Stracchino
Cc: bac...@li...
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> The way LTO compression works, the tape drive compresses each block on
> the fly, then writes to tape whichever is the *smaller* of the raw or
> the compressed block, flagging it accordingly.

It's also worth noting that LTO has a trailing read head and every block 
written to the tape is verified on the fly - rewritten if required.

This is one of the reasons the things are so reliable.




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