Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 11:30:45AM +0200, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> > On the other hand, using buffer *reliably* induced errors into
> > my backup (scsi-DAT). Always test your backup.
> Isn't hardware compression preferred? It stores some extra data on tape
> which allows error-correction. My DDS-DC is faster with compression on,
> a win-win as far as I can tell.
Mine is slower, SW-Compression beats it size-wise (and that
increases effective speed). And ECC-data is generated anyway
by the tape (and afio should be able to deal with some data
corruption).
-Wolfgang
