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File compression

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tom11011

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Oct 12, 2001
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Does anyone know of any tools that can scan my network and give me a report about compressed files it finds, there locations, and there sizes both compressed and uncompressed.

After much headache with veritas backups and the tape continuosly ejecting at 99%, or 55gigs for my outfit, I finally figured out that the tape was in fact full at 55gigs (a dlt 4 tape which I mistakenly assumed 80 gig capacity but never took into account already compressed files with the likes of winzip, etc..)!

Since it always failed at 99%, we (me and veritas) assumed it was that issue that has like a dozen support articles where the tape ejects at 99%. Obviously, none of those articles helped but if you think about it, as the network continued to grow in size, of course at some point it is going to fail at 99%!!!

Just a FYI, maybe I just missed the point somewhere and everyone else knows better but hopefully this can save someone some trouble down the road!

Anyways, if anyone knows of a tool, I would appreciate a response.

 
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