radar wrote:
>
> i have a (hp c1537a dds3 125m 4mm) tapedrive
> that can hold 12 gig uncompressed and says that it can
> compress up to 24. i think you know it all.
> my thougts was, hey, let the hardware do the compression
> so your system is not under such a heavy load.
I was going that way for a while - tape drive doing the compression.
But I have one computer with 30Gb of data that's mostly already been
gzipped. To avoid expanding this data I chose to go with software
compression. I don't compress this one disk's worth of data. I
spread the compression among my clients and the tape server.
Going with software compression means I don't have to guess how
compressible my data is. Amanda will learn the compression ratio
for the different disk partitions and start doing an excellent job of
making use of the tape.
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