On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:25:13AM -0400, Donofrio, Lewis wrote: > This is my first post here - I thought people should never use tape hw > compression because each vendor implements their own compression > protocols. Say you need to restore files from a different tape host and > if your not using the exact same hw vendor then you might have an > *issue* or two?
My understanding is that the tape formats are "standards" defined by some organization of vendors that specify the compression protocols among other things. Thus any DDS-3 tape should be readable on other vendors DDS-3, and DLT-IV the same, ... -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
