On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 at 12:17pm, Ean Kingston wrote > I Have the opposite viewpoint. I prefer hardware compression. It allows > me to offload processing required to the tape drive (instead of my > computers) Since some of my systems (including the backup server itself) > can be slow, this actually speeds things up for me. Also, with hardware > compression, I know I can restore the tape without having to worry about > finding the right libraries and programs to do the restore. Also (AFAIK) > you can't do remote compression with samba which I use for about half of > my backups. > It really depends on your data. I have filesystems which are completely uncompressable in software (and expand in hardware), and filesystems which compress to <20% of their original size. Using software compressions lets me pick and choose which DLEs get compressed or not.
-- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
