HP LTO 3 with Sun Solaris 9

[AZayed]

Dears,

Good day,

Sorry for posting this here, I don't know were to post it. I attached HP LTO 3 to Sun Solaris 9 on Sun Fire V210 and follow the instruction at : http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=lpg50151&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=443365&locale=en_US

But I couldn't backup more than 400 GB on the tape. I'm using HP LTO 3 ( 800 GB ) tapes ;

This is the following result from my system :

root@Obi-Wan> mt -f /dev/rmt/1cn status
HP Ultrium LTO3 tape drive:
sense key(0x13)= EOT residual= 0 retries= 0
file no= 1 block no= 0

I'm using ufsdump.

How can I know why SUN Solaris can't backup more than 400 GB ?

Regards,

[Ivan Ferreira]

LTO3 has a capacity of 400 GB or 800 GB if your data can be compressed 2:1. If your data cannot be compressed, then you won't be able store more than 400 GB of data.

What kind of data are you trying to backup?

[AZayed]

Hi,

Thanks for reply, it's most likely gzip and tar files.

Thanks