On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Dietz Pröpper <di...@rotfl.franken.de> wrote: > John Drescher: >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Mike Hanby <mha...@uab.edu> wrote: >> > Howdy, >> > >> > I'm curious whether others with the PV-124T with LTO4 are using >> > hardware or software compression. >> > >> > I am testing a new Bacula deployment with one of these autoloaders / >> > drives and haven't found a good suggestion as to which type of >> > compression to go with. >> >> Never use software compression on an LTO drive. Hardware compression >> much faster. > > I get around 100mb/s with gzip -1 ;-). > That is still slower than a LTO4 drive. It would also be a low compression rate. Also I would bet if you had client machines not all of them could do 100MB/s..
John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
