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- From: kevins@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Kevin Swift)
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:10:13 GMT
- Subject: Re: How man MB/GB am I backing up?
- Message-ID: <-192019995@hpopd.pwd.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard ISG-SBU-PWD, UK.
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- References: <1992Sep04.175618.17323@edsi.plexus.COM>
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- We had a problem that a backup of a 420MB disk would not fit on a 1.3GB
- tape! It turned out that we had a file which had a length of many MB's
- but was only using a few blocks. The backup was backing up all the
- zero's in the middle of the file that were not actually on the disk.
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