On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 16:17 +0100, Davina Treiber wrote:
> Nico De Ranter wrote: 
> I am not aware of any problems you are likely to encounter. These days
> tape drive technology has reached a point where hardware compression
> just works.
> 
> Although as you say there would be no benefit in using the compressed
> device for gzipped files, there is also no reason not to, and you will
> gain on other files which are not already compressed. It is unlikely
> to slow it down.
> 
> > If I would switch to using the cbn device now, would I still be able to
> > read my existing uncompressed tapes using that device?
> >   
> Certainly you would.

Moving to compressed tapes is now on my todo-list ;-)

Thanks!

Nico

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