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  3. October 2011

Re: How much room is left on my LTO3 tape?

I miss the days when our reel-to-reel tape drive had a graphic on it that
displayed how much of the tape was processed. "Bad time to take a break,
in just a few minutes we'll have to change tape."

If you use separate volume id's on all your tapes, AND reset this
statistic after use, it's a little helpful
PRTERRLOG TYPE(*VOLSTAT) VOLTYPE(3590)
however, with compression varying based on objects being saved it can be
frustrating. On a 3 volume backup set it's not uncommon to see a large
difference between the first and second tape due to compression
differences between qsys and non qsys stream file stuff.


Rob Berendt

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