[Info-vax] 547.53 GB vs. 600 GB?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <hj951n$fsq$1 at news.belwue.de>, gartmann at nonsense.immunbio.mpg.de (Christoph Gartmann) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> give is a directory on an ODS5 disk with the following contents:
> 
>    DIR/SIZE=ALL/GRAND [...]
> 
>    Grand total of 5 directories, 18 files, 547.53GB/547.53GB
> 
> So I thought this should fit onto two SDLT600 using the following command:
>    $ BACKUP/LOG/IGNORE=INTERLOCK diskx:[heun...] mkb200:pc127.bck/SAVE -
>       /LABEL=(HEUN1,HEUN2,HEUN3)/EXACT_ORDER/BLOCK=32256
> 

   That BACKUP command will generate CRC data and redundacy blocks in
   addition to saving the original data.  BACKUP will only use as
   many tapes as it needs, specifying three labels does not cause it to
   use three tapes.