Won't hurt a thing if you turn it on. TSM doesn't know it's happening, so it has no impact on TSM operations.
IF you have compression turned on at your TSM client, the data is already compressed, and the tape drive probably won't be able to compress it any more. In fact, there are SOME cases where the data can grow a bit if it is compressed a second time. But if you have a mix of ordinary AIX and Windows servers, that is generally not enough of an issue to worry about. I think most people will recommend having the drive doing compression, over having the client do the compression. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Becar Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 6:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Tape Compression We are currently not using tape compression. How bad is it to start using compression in the middle or everything? Or should I not use compression? Thanks! Aaron
