John Drescher wrote: >> So with LTO it seems to be no problem to use gzip and the drives >> hardware compression. >> >> Any thoughts on this? >> > With software compression on an LTO device your backups will take much > longer unless your client can somehow compress at the rate your tape > drive needs.
Agreed. Any compression is best/fastest on the hardware. Another issue I'll raise in a different thread.... -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
