Thanks for responding, Russ.
1) Retrospect estimates tape capacity at 23.5 gb, the drive has hardware compression.
2) Disk capacity of all 7 Macs totals 490gb, BUT Retrospect only looks at 2 particular folders on each Mac - those folders total 19.5gb.
3) Yes, I am aware.
So, to my way of thinking, if there’s only 19.5gb of data (before the tape drive even does it’s hardware compression) it should all fit on one tape during a Recycle backup, err, shouldn’t it? :uncertain:
PS: Will media timeout shut down the host & client Macs?