OT: REV iomega backupedge

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D . Thomas Podnar" <tom at microlite.com>
To: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: OT: REV iomega backupedge


> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:12:27PM -0800, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
>> I'm putting a new backup tape called the IOMEGA REV (35Gb/90Gb) $375 on a
>> linux box , upgrading from a seagate tranvan 10/20gb, I finally make it
>> being recognized by the linux box and the edgebackup, Do you know what
>> settings should I put on the device ?
>>
>> - General Resource Information
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Resource Type       DVD
>> Resource Name       [rev0              ] Change as appropriate
>> Description         [Iomega RRD 74.B             ]
>> Changer Assoc       [Standalone Device]
>> Interface           [SCSI       ]
>>
>> - DVD / DVD-R / DVD-RAM Information
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Data Node           [/dev/scd1                   ]
>> Mount Device Node   [/dev/scd1                   ]
>> Record Buffer (K)   [2048                        ] [16]x Speed
>> Needs Eject?        [ ]
>> Writable Media:     REV
>>
>> - Default Backup Properties
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Volume Size (K)     [4472832                     ] [S] Compression
>> Edge Block Size     [64                          ] [Y] Double Buffering
>> [Next]                                                     [Prev]
>> [Cancel]
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Volume should be 30000000 or 90000000 with compression ?
>>
>> Hey by the way this REV drive rocks! it uses the micro hard drives that
>> look like a tape, but it's fast fast fast!!!.
>>
>> I highly recommended to backup all filepro stuff!!!.
>>
>>
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>
> The correct volume size for REV is ZERO (0), which is the default.
>
> BackupEDGE understands 0 on all optical and REV media to mean,
> "Please ask the media for the proper volume size".
> It will automatically determine exactly how much data can be written
> on the REV.
>
> Set it to 0, do a backup, and then use
>   EDGEMENU -> Verify -> Show Archive Label.
>
> Please note that the current and recommended product release for
> Linux is 02.01.01 build 4, which is a free update for any user
> of BackupEDGE 02.00.00 or later.
>
> OpenServer is at 02.01.01 build 3.
> -- 
> Tom
> ---

That did it, I changed it to 0 and it shows when doing the backup the right 
size "34,184,545 left on volume". I'm running a demo version 2.01.01: rel 4.

Thank you and thank all other people that commented about it!.