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Mubasheruddin's avatar
10 years ago

Backup Exec 2010 R3 is not using tapes to full capacity with encryption enabled

Dear Technical Team, I have been using Backup Exec 2010 R3 for quite sometime, but last week backup ends with only using the tapes to half capacity only i.e., 379GB used out of 800GB original spac...
  • pkh's avatar
    10 years ago
    See my comments in this discussion on how you should combine compression and encryption. https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/backup-exec-2014-hardware-encryption-and-compression In your case, you can only use software encryption because LTO3 does not have hardware encryption. Since you can only use software encryption, you must use software compression. Of you use hardware compression with software encryption, you would end up with more data then what you have started with