Vince,
 
We have had some real issues in the past with compressed drives on Windows as 
the backup application has to decompress the files to read them which uses 
temporary space as well as CPU and memory resources.  We have tended to use the 
hardware compression of the tape drive itself.
 
Regards,
 
Paul Esson 
Senior Consultant 
Redstor Limited 
 
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From: Legato NetWorker discussion on behalf of Vince Howard
Sent: Wed 26/04/2006 16:03
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Disk backup data compression



Hi Gurus,

I suspect this may a stupid question, but I'm a complete newbie to disk
backups so I'll ask anyway :o)

We are busy implementing NetWorker DBO and am wondering about the best
way to compress data.  Should I do it with NetWorker's compressasm
directive or should I allow Windows to compress the drive used to hold
the backup data?


Best Regards,

Vince


Vince Howard
Programmer/UNIX System Administrator
IT Section
Wansbeck District Council
Front Street West
Bedlington
Northumberland
NE22 5TU
UK

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