I have heard that TSM dedup can deal with TSM client-compressed data, but I have no first-hand experience, nor do I know if there are any tradeoffs. We are in the same boat as you, and are thus looking forward to exploring this further.
At 01:53 PM 2/9/2010, Jeff Brunt wrote: >I was reading some posts earlier this month about using the data domain >appliance and read that they recommend not using client compression. I am >using TSM dedup and was wondering if that recommendation would still be true >as I have forced client compression on since all data is now going to disk, >and running dedup as well. -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: p...@cornell.edu