jerryc Posted April 15, 2003 Report Share Posted April 15, 2003 I use a Mac G4 Server running OSX 10.2.4 with Retrospect 5.0.238. My scripts are daily incrementals and a Friday full, rotating weekly three times....The backup media is a 6-tape autoloader with DAT DDS 3 tapes. I recently ran an incremental script last night and came in only to find that it was asking for the 7th tape and had only gotten a small portion of the way thru the script. At the rate it was going, it would need 20 tapes..... Each of the tapes only had about 2-3 gb's stored on them before the system went to the next tape. I must have something in the pref's set up wrong. I have selected "compress" in hopes of doubling the storage capacity. Can anyone give me some idea what I'm doing wrong? Many thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 15, 2003 Report Share Posted April 15, 2003 Just to be sure, you are using 125M tapes right? Hardware compression is on by default. Reduced capacity could be the result of a device communication problem or other hardware issue. Does the operations log indicate any errors? What was the performance displayed in the log for these backups? This may be helpful: Media Capacity FAQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryc Posted April 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2003 Doh!!!! When looking at the tapes...it appears some DDS 2 snuck in there. It's always the simplest thing that you just can't see with your eyes open. Many thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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