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ah yes... thanks for the explanation man...
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ah yes... thanks for the explanation man...

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ah.. but the problem is taht i don't have enough LTO-4, is there any problem in doing so ?
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ah.. but the problem is taht i don't have enough LTO-4, is there any problem in doing so ?

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Hi All,<br />
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I've got LTO-4 tape drive and using BE 2010 R2 running now, in my backup job I've selected a directory which contains 1.1 TB of files that is a backup file from a 3rd party application (already deduplicated), however after long writing time i found out that the LTO-4 tape 1.6 TB is not enough ? it asked for another tape ?<br />
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since the difference is not that big, then i insert the LTO-3 tape. would that be ok for the weekly full archive to tape ? <br />
using 2 tape in one backup set ? LTO-4 and LTO-3 pair ? <br />
<br />
any kind of help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.<br />
<br />
Cheers,<br />
JJ
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Hi All,

I've got LTO-4 tape drive and using BE 2010 R2 running now, in my backup job I've selected a directory which contains 1.1 TB of files that is a backup file from a 3rd party application (already deduplicated), however after long writing time i found out that the LTO-4 tape 1.6 TB is not enough ? it asked for another tape ?

since the difference is not that big, then i insert the LTO-3 tape. would that be ok for the weekly full archive to tape ? 
using 2 tape in one backup set ? LTO-4 and LTO-3 pair ? 

any kind of help and suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
JJ

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