| <<< Note 340.3 by DECWET::RWALKER "Roger Walker - Media Changers" >>>
> The fact that the customer failed a file restore is serious.
> The amount of data sent to the tape should not be an issue.
This will be checked by customer again
> As Kevin mentioned it looks like the data is being compressed
> by the client software. The NetWorker server only counts the
> bytes moved to tape, it has no knowledge of the original file
> sizes. They can turn of client compression and try again
> to verify this. Tape starts and stops do not reduce the
> tape capacity a significant amount with DLT.
Thank for detailed explanation,
it appears that during the upgrade of networker & tape, customer changed
some of it's "heavy" clients to do compression.
So everything is OK now and customer is happy.
regards
kobi.
|