Paul,

I agree with your observations.  However, I can't rationalize them with the
lack of elapsed time backup improvement.  Yes, compressing earlier rather
than later makes sense.  But why, then, don't we see an improvement in
overall backup times?

I really like compression to keep the overall disk storage pool utilization
low.  That's a real good reason to do it, if you don't have enough disk
pool.

How about somebody that compresses everyplace giving us their real world
experiences?

Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs CO 80919
(719)531-5926
Fax: (719)260-5991
www.storsol.com
lipp AT storsol DOT com