From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner >Do client compression.
This is (generally) not good advice. The hardware compression performed by tape drive technology achieves faster, more efficient compression; the TSM server itself has nothing to do with it. Some clients do not work and play well with TSM's client compresssion code; NetWare machines in particular will redline CPU utilitization when they are doing their own compression, and tend to abend with alarming regularity. The only time I've seen client-side compression in a favorable light is when you're working with stressed networks, and in these days of 100Mb/GB Ethernet, stressed networks are becoming increasingly rare. -- Mark Stapleton
