goony wrote:

> Within Networker, at the client, you can COMPRESS, or you can ENCRYPT, but 
> you cannot chose to do BOTH.
> 
> If you need to do both, then your best best is to COMPRESS via Networker, 
> then use a hardware-based encrypting tape drive(s) to ENCRYPT the data on 
> tape.

I would say that using a tape drive to to both the encryption and the
compression is better still. The LTO-4 can give extremely good
compression at the same time as encrypting.

I know that opinion differs on this list, but I believe that compression
at the client level should only be done in the case of a slow network
connection, and only then if the client has sufficient spare CPU capacity.

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