What type of data are you backing up on those Windows servers? If your clients 
contain a lot of compressed media files, then the compression ratio you get 
from your LTO-5 tape drives might be degraded. 

On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:00, "gunnerjoe" <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT 
COM> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm running Win2k8_64 Legato 7.6.4 server and most of my clients are Win2k3 
> or Win2k8 servers or WinXP or Win7.  Currently I'm using Standard NT 
> Directives and was wondering if you could give me some input on switching 
> that to NT with compression Directives, the good, the bad etc.
> 
> I'm using LTO-5 tapes but still burning through them way too fast.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe
> 
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