Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working

2006-04-17 15:22:24
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Hardware compression not working
From: dcarlisle AT paychex DOT com (Carlisle, D Renee)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:22:24 -0400
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Tape Library: IBM 3584 partitioned into production and test environment=0D=
=0A=0D=0AOperating System:  Solaris 9, Windows 2003, HP-UX 11i=0D=0A=0D=0AN=
etbackup: 5=2E1 mp3=0D=0A=0D=0A =0D=0A=0D=0AJust upgraded from STK L700E LT=
O-1 library to a IBM 3584 LTO-2 library=0D=0A=0D=0AAll of a sudden tape com=
pression is not working on any flavor media server, but only in production=
=2E Our test environment is compressing data at a hardware level just fine=
=2E  Same OS, same NBU release, same Tape library, same tape drive drivers,=
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=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0ACan anyone think of what we might be missing that would c=
ause the production environment not to be using hardware compression while =
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