need to do a backup of 40 gb in dds2 tape

[diego delgado]

hi all,
i got an alpha server ds10 with a compaq sdt10000 tape driver and i need to do a backup of 40 Gb in an only one tape but i haven't a tape of this dimension.
can anyone suggest me something ?
can i use a modified dds4 or dds3 tapes ?

thanks a lot

diego

[marsh_1 · Accepted solution]

hi,

the sdt10000 does 40gb with compression on, also have you tried zipping up as many files as you can to save space.

[diego delgado]

thank you "wizard",
it's a precious information..

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] with compression on, also have you
> tried zipping [...]

Of course, the hardware compression in the
tape drive may not be able to do much with
data which you have already compressed.

> can i use a modified dds4 or dds3 tapes ?

Modified how? The tapes hold what they hold.
Stretching a tape won't help. What else is
there?

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi Diego,

Can you explain again, exactly what you want to do...?

The subject of your post mentions a DDS2 tape. That tape will only hold 8GB of compressed data, so no you can't fit 40GB on it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Data_Storage

Cheers,

Rob