> The drive has hardware data compression that saves tape space by > compressing each packet sent to the drive. Although the manufacture > will claim 2:1 (and call the tape a 800GB tape) is the norm this > number is highly dependent on your data. Remember that compressed data > does compress a second time and random data is also not compressible > but text is very compressible. >
Correction, It should have read "compressed data does NOT compress a second time." John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
