backups using HP DAT drives

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From: smorg (smorg_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/16/04

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    I was wondering does anyone have any experience using HP DAT drives for
    backups. My issue is I have a DAT 24 internal drive and I'm having problems
    backing up when the amount of data is less than 24GB (approx 19GB). I am
    using compression. For a while I was using hardware compression. I was having
    issues with that. Now, I changed to software compression.

    The backups are failing and the software, which is veritas backup exec, gets
    to a point and requests another tape. I put in another tape, but the backup
    does not continue. I tried using NT backup in Win2000 server, it also
    produces the same issue. I understand that I won't get exactly 24GB on a
    tape, but I should be able to get more than 19GB. Any suggestions here would
    be helpful.
      

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    smorg
    

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