If you are using encryption, the drive can't compress the encrypted data.

Austin

On 4/17/06, Carlisle, D Renee <dcarlisle AT paychex DOT com> wrote:
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> Tape Library: IBM 3584 partitioned into production and test environment
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> Operating System:  Solaris 9, Windows 2003, HP-UX 11i
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> Netbackup: 5.1 mp3
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> Just upgraded from STK L700E LTO-1 library to a IBM 3584 LTO-2 library
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> All of a sudden tape compression is not working on any flavor media server,
> but only in production. Our test environment is compressing data at a
> hardware level just fine.  Same OS, same NBU release, same Tape library,
> same tape drive drivers, same HBA cards, same firmware, same st.conf file on
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> Can anyone think of what we might be missing that would cause the production
> environment not to be using hardware compression while the test environment
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> Reneé Carlisle
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> 675 Basket Road
> Webster, NY 14580
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