On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> --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".
> 

Whoops, thanks for the correction.

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