Hello,

we don't have any problems letting compression ON for the clients and also
doing hardware compression on the tape drives. I is true that this tape
compression has very few left to compress!

But it dosn't disturb nor influence the performance of migrations /
collocations

                René Lambelet
                Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magura, Curtis [SMTP:curtis.magura AT LMCO DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 12:18 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Compression - On / Off
> 
> I have been following the compression thread the last day or so. My
> question
> is if you want / need to have compression at the client end what are you
> doing at the tape end?
> 
> We are using compression at the tape drive (3494 - 4*3590-E). From what I
> have read on the list and in the manuals you don't want software and
> hardware compression active at the same time.
> 
> Are folks managing separate devclasses and pools with different
> compression
> settings and directing clients accordingly?
> 
> Curt Magura
> Lockheed Martin EIS
> Gaithersburg, Md.
> 301-240-6305