Hello,
Yes if you backup database like Oracle ^^
Regards,

Shaun avait écrit le 08.06.2006 :
> Has anyone else ever seen this? Is it faulty media, hardware or software?
> Or is it posible that certain files can be compressed so much that it can
> store more than a 1GB of data.

Shaun wrote, in part, on 6/8/2006 3:42 AM:
> Has anyone else ever seen this? Is it faulty media, hardware or software?
> Or is it posible that certain files can be compressed so much that it can
> store more than a 1GB of data.

Your tape drive vendor is making an estimate when it tells you about the
"800" portion of your "400-800" tape drive. I've seen (a mostly empty
DB) of 1GB be stored on a 100M tape! This is good, is it not?
Unfortunately, if you have some already compressed or encrypted data,
chances are that not much more than 400 will fit on a tape.

Is it faulty? No, what you've described is to be expected. When you
restore the contents, do you get the same data restored as was backed
up? When you answer that, you know the answer to "Is it faulty?"!

cheers, wayne

NetBackup reports the tape size in KB, so just over one million would be 1GB
just one billion is 1TB.

Data compression at greater than 2.5:1 is possible when you are backing up
empty data files or other highly compressible data type.

"Shaun" wrote:
>
>Has anyone else ever seen this? Is it faulty media, hardware or software?
>Or is it posible that certain files can be compressed so much that it can
>store more than a 1GB of data.