Yoiu are correct that encrypted data is not compressible. Netbackups client based encrytion knows this and will apply compression first then encryption. If you use client based encryption, then client based compression is your onlu option. Hardware compression on your tape drives will be effectively worthless.
On 5/22/09, James Pattinson <jam...@hisser.org> wrote: > Hi All > > Does anyone know if NetBackup's client encryption option compresses the > data before it's encrypted? > > If not am I right in assuming that this data won't be compressible even > by hardware compression afterwards :) > > Cheers > James > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
