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Re: [Networker] tape drive hardware compression a bad thing?

2003-01-29 09:39:19
Subject: Re: [Networker] tape drive hardware compression a bad thing?
From: Vince Howard <v.howard AT WANSBECK.GOV DOT UK>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:41:52 -0000
Jim,

We've used hardware compression for years (Solaris 2.6/DLT4000) and never
had problems when recovering data.


Best regards,

Vince
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Vince Howard
Programmer/UNIX Systems Administrator
Wansbeck District Council
Front Street West
Bedlington
Northumberland
NE22 5TU
UK

Tel (direct line): +44 (0)1670 843472
fax: +44 (0)1670 843486 / 843484
e-mail: v.howard AT wansbeck.gov DOT uk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Lane [mailto:JLane AT TORONTOHYDRO DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:18 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: tape drive hardware compression a bad thing?
>
>
> Hi, All
>
> I recently had a contractor/consultant onsite to review my Networker
> setup. among other things he insisted that using hardware
> compression on
> a tape library is a "bad thing". the closest thing to an explanation I
> ever heard was that it might cause data loss somehow and that Legato
> wouldn't help me if it did. since contractors have a better
> relationship
> with management than I do he just called STK onsite and had them turn
> compression off on my 9710. I'm wondering if anybody out
> there has ever
> heard anything like this before? does anybody have any
> experience of the
> possible effects, on either reliability or performance, of
> tape hardware
> compression?
> TIA
>
> Jim Lane
> Sr. Technical Consultant
> Network Services
> Toronto Hydro
> office: (416)-542-2820
> cell: (416)-896-8576
>
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