--On Wednesday, June 02, 2004 23:19:03 -0400 Jon LaBadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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%. I assume you really meant "tape drive compression". Frank
