On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 at 12:11am, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote > Why would you want to run the tape with hardware compression ON ? > It�s recommended to run Amanda without the hardware compression on, > because Amanda can predict tape usage much better without hw > compression. So think about it twice.
In some cases, though, it makes sense. Sometimes one just can't spare the cycles on the clients, or compression makes the whole thing just take too long. But, yes, HW compression does involve one lying to amanda, and that lie just being a guess based on your estimates of how well your data compresses. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
