On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:52:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> The ideal situation would be to have the backup thats
> being optionally gzipped ...

Gene's mention of compression reminded me.  If you are using
disk drive compression you have to feed data at a higher rate
to the drive than if it is already compressed with gzip and
then sent to the tape.  As much as twice as fast if the
compression rate of the drive is 50%.

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