On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:52:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The ideal situation would be to have the backup thats > being optionally gzipped ...
Gene's mention of compression reminded me. If you are using disk drive compression you have to feed data at a higher rate to the drive than if it is already compressed with gzip and then sent to the tape. As much as twice as fast if the compression rate of the drive is 50%. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
