On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 12:17pm, Ean Kingston wrote

> I Have the opposite viewpoint. I prefer hardware compression. It allows 
> me to offload processing required to the tape drive (instead of my 
> computers) Since some of my systems (including the backup server itself) 
> can be slow, this actually speeds things up for me. Also, with hardware 
> compression, I know I can restore the tape without having to worry about 
> finding the right libraries and programs to do the restore. Also (AFAIK) 
> you can't do remote compression with samba which I use for about half of 
> my backups.
> 
It really depends on your data.  I have filesystems which are completely 
uncompressable in software (and expand in hardware), and filesystems which 
compress to <20% of their original size.  Using software compressions lets 
me pick and choose which DLEs get compressed or not.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University