omniback II

[Jim Kriegel]

Hi,

I've got a 4/40 ultrium library and omniback II. I've got it setup and working, but I just realized the tape capacity isn't right. I tried to manually set the capacity but the field to specifiy the capacity stops entries at 5 characters, which I believe only gives me 20gigs. The ultrium is a 200gig tape.

Am I wrong about the capacity? I have all the patches for omniback II 3.5 .

Thanks,

Tom

HPUX 11.0, k570

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I don't have an Ultrium yet but I think the problem is the GUI. You should be able to do an omniminit from the shell and specify a size. (If you have a bunch of media you would want to do this in a script anyway).

Clay

[Volker Borowski]

Hello,
I use a NT OBII 3.5 (Patch 17)
version with a DLT.
No problem to initialize a tape with a size of 150000M, which is my average capacity for DLT IV in my database pool (due to compression).

Is the Ultrium already recognized by OBII ?
If not, which Media did you assign ?
Did you try DLT ?

Volker

[Jim Kriegel]

Ultrium is an LTO format. I've been able to setup everything and run some test backups. I'm only a little concerned that I may get to use the capacity of the tapes.

hp support has responded yet. Its possible that omniback will use the whole tape, but not know how much the tape can hold.



Tom

[Volker Borowski]

Hi Jim,

this is really no problem, even if I initialize my tapes to 20GB for my database
pool, it fills up to around 150GB.

It is just for information in the "used percentage", to initialize the tapes
to a given size.

Hope this helps
Volker