On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 04:45:55PM +0000, Steven Hammond wrote: > We back our servers to disk. We then follow up with a job to copy > them to tape. The backup to disk uses compression. My question is > this: When the COPY job runs, does it decompress the job on disk > before sending it to the tape or does it just copy it straight to > tape (which means the hardware compression really is not effective)? > Thanks.
Hi Steven, I believe (this is from quite a while ago since we stopped using copy jobs a year ago or so) that the data is decompressed and then migrated to tape. Someone please correct me if I remember this wrongly... Cheers, Uwe -- NIONEX --- Ein Unternehmen der Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
