"Chris Thomas" <chrisvai777@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> We are in the the process of trying to sort out a new backup system
> for our Unix environment.
>
> We are looking at the Sun StorEdge L25 Tape Library, that can hold up
> to 5TB of data over 25 tapes.
>
> My question is, does anybody know what the backup ratio is for the
> drive? In other words how much does it compress data on to the tape
> cartridges?
>
> Thanks for any replies.
It depends on what drives you are using, but LTO1 and SDLT220 typically say
they can do 1:2 compression. But this of course depends on what data you are
backing up.


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Mats Berger