--On Wednesday, June 02, 2004 23:19:03 -0400 Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT 
com> wrote:

> 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%.

I assume you really meant "tape drive compression".

Frank