On 11/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anthony Vito</b> <<a href="mailto:anthony.vito@gmail.com">anthony.vito@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> PS Don't rely on getting anywhere near 40Gb, that's compressed and movie<br>> files don't compress well, more like 24-26Gb I'd have thought.<br><br>it's worse then that. mpeg algorithms and the like are already so
<br>randomly distributed, if you turn compression on, you will get _less_<br>then 20 gigs of storage. Leave compression off completely ( at the<br>tape drive, and in software ), it will be faster, and you'll be much<br>more happy.
<br><br><br>--<br>Anthony Vito<br><a href="mailto:anthony.vito@gmail.com">anthony.vito@gmail.com</a><br></blockquote></div><br>
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Sounds like I will need twice as many tapes then.
WONDERFUL. Thanks guys. No other thoughts on saveing the
LVM group for a complete re-install?<br>