Hi,

maybe your Data, you wants to Backup, is not compressible e.g. JPG Files or
MP3 or your 30 GB are already compressed.

greetings
Jan
"Torgny Ahlfors" wrote in message
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> We run Backupexec 8.6 on Win 2000 server and the backupstation
> is HP20-40 the tapes are DLT4.
> and we need to backup aprox 30 gig but it does not take more than 26 gig
> then it will have a new tape.
> We have tested with different compresions set, and new tapes
> we have also used new formated tapes, but no it will not backup more than
> 26 gig. Why is it so?