>>>>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:19:21 -0500, Dan Langille said: > > There was a recent discussion of hardware versus software compression. > In general, I recommend hardware compression, unless your software can > keep up with your tape drive. > > Is all hardware compression compatible? > > Given a tape containing compressed data, can it be restored using any > compatible tape from from any manufacturer? In short, is all > compression equal and reversible?
Hopefully that is true now, with standards for the tape drives. I think it wasn't true originally for DAT tapes (I recall some problems with tapes compressed on HP drives at least). __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
