On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:45:00PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > --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". >
Whoops, thanks for the correction. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
