On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:15:18PM -0800, Schuller, William wrote:

Compressed stream goes directly to a tape drive. 
Server does nothing with it. 
Software compression on clients seves some network traffic 
but slowing down backups speed significantly. 
It's similar to gzip -9.  (yaeh, I would love to know the level. )
It doesn't save tapes. 
So if network is not an issue, don't even think about it. 



> Software compression compresses the data on the client and decompresses it
> on the server. It's is intended for use with small/slow networks.
>  
> Bill Schuller
> Cayenta, Inc.
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Patrick [mailto:roger AT rogerpatrick DOT com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:49 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] software and hardware compression. 
>  
> Folks,
>  
> If I'm running hardware compression on my drives, should I also turn on
> software compression in NetBackup?  What will I achieve by running software
> and hardware compression, does this make any sense?
>  
> Regards,
>  
> StickyBit.


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