On 08/22/12 11:18, lst_hoe02 AT kwsoft DOT de wrote:
> Zitat von lst_hoe02 AT kwsoft DOT de:
>> according to the manual client based software compression is not
>> useful when using tape drives with builtin compression like LTO. Is
>> this still true when using data encryption? With this the encrypted
>> data are normally not really compresable anymore but a compression on
>> the client before encryption could be useful, no?
>>
>> Any opinion on this?
> 
> Anyone aware if i'm right that compression is happening *before* encryption?

It's certainly *supposed* to.  Encryption works better when redundancy
is eliminated from the cleartext before encryption, plus there's a
smaller volume of data to encrypt.


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