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Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Light Speed compressed files

2010-04-27 20:54:21
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Light Speed compressed files
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:51:37 -0400
Modern tape drive hardware has compression techniques which are smart
enough to avoid issues with data that is already compressed (see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open)
.  I'm not aware of any good reasons to turn off compression in a
modern tape drive: it can handle itself.

   Richard Sims

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