hiker 0 Report post Posted August 20 I am learning Retrospect through trial and error at my job, so hopefully this is a question easily answered by someone who knows what they are doing. We have never been able to put as much data on the backup media as we hoped - usually less than 1 TBs per tape. Recently, Retrospect starting asking for a second tape almost immediately after beginning a backup. The last two backups had less than 10GBs on tape 1 before I was asked for more media. 650 GBs (12,874 files) took 2 Ultrium 5 tapes where last month we fit 1.3 TBs (66,932 files) onto only 1 tape. As far as I can tell, none of the settings or options have been changed. (Fast Catalog rebuild, Hardware Compression) Can someone help shed light onto what may be going on and how I can fix this? I am running Retrospect 13.0.1 on a Mac Pro Dual-Core Intel Xeon with 12GBs of RAM. It's connected to a Quantum Ultrium 5 DC LTO drive. We run a tape cleaning cartridge whenever the drive indicates the need. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DavidHertzberg 41 Report post Posted August 22 hiker, Try looking at this Knowledge Base article, and also at this thread—which is Windows-oriented. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
