On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu> 
wrote:
> Hemant Shah wrote:
>>
>> You should always let the tape drive do the compression, the hardware 
>> compression on tape will be faster then software compression done by the 
>> client. Your backups will be faster too.
>
> Unless you're not using a tape, which is why I compress in software. :)

Or if you are using bacula to encrypt the data on each client before
sending it to the storage daemon.  Tape compression is practically
useless for already encrypted data.

Chad

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