John Drescher schrieb: > > 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.
Yes, I don't think that more than 20 MB/s will be possible. But that's also the true with backup2disk, but for diff and incr backups it wouldn't hurt that much. Maybe it's better to not use sw compression at all if tapes are involved. Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
