[Veritas-bu] compression and disk storage/staging

Subject:	[Veritas-bu] compression and disk storage/staging
From:	austin.murphy AT gmail DOT com (Austin Murphy)
Date:	Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:51:13 -0500

I think so.   The only problem would be if you are encrypting. 
Encrypted data does not compress nicely.  also, if you did all
compression at the client, you might be able to get more out of your
Disk Staging Storage Unit.

Austin

On 2/16/06, Bob Stump <stumpb AT michigan DOT gov> wrote:
> I use compression in the policies that write to a disk storage unit.
>
> I do NOT use compression to a disk staging unit because it is only temporary.
> I let the tape drive handle the compression as the final destination
>
> Is this a sound philosophy?

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