RE: to compress or not to compress ???
2003-07-03 12:32:14
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 12:17pm, Ean Kingston wrote
> I Have the opposite viewpoint. I prefer hardware compression. It allows
> me to offload processing required to the tape drive (instead of my
> computers) Since some of my systems (including the backup server itself)
> can be slow, this actually speeds things up for me. Also, with hardware
> compression, I know I can restore the tape without having to worry about
> finding the right libraries and programs to do the restore. Also (AFAIK)
> you can't do remote compression with samba which I use for about half of
> my backups.
>
It really depends on your data. I have filesystems which are completely
uncompressable in software (and expand in hardware), and filesystems which
compress to <20% of their original size. Using software compressions lets
me pick and choose which DLEs get compressed or not.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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