Rene, I've seen much the same on our environment (RS-6000/AIX). It looks
like the ADSM compression is *very* processor-intensive. If you have the
network bandwidth available AND your tape unit has hardware compression
you'll be better off not using the ADSM compression.

Tom Kauffman
Sr. Technical Advisor
NIBCO, Inc
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>From:  Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,FC-SIL/INF.[SMTP:Rene.Lambelet AT NESTLE DOT COM]
>Sent:  Thursday, May 15, 1997 8:28 AM
>To:    ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject:       ADSM/Backint - compression
>
>Bonjour,
>
>we are experiencing a problem with backups from NT/SAP-R3.
>
>ADSM/Backint, with "compression off" will backup 1 MBytes in 5 seconds.
>Fine.
>
>With "compression on", it takes 15 min for the same files! This is of
>course unsupportable knowing that we will have to backup more than 10 GB
>in the future.
>
>The SAP client processor is a powerfull machine.
>
>Is this problem known to somebody?
>
>Thanks fo helping us.
>
>René Lambelet, Nestec, Vevey, Switzerland
>