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VALEXEC15
Level 3
9 years ago

BE2014 - LTO3 Tapes Compression issue

Hi All, Im new to BE. our old server died and we setup BE 2014 (Service Pack 2 with Hotfix 227745 ) on brand new HP server (physical )few weeks ago (with HP MSL6000 Tape Libraray with LTO3 Drive )...
2014
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
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    VALEXEC15
    9 years ago

    ooh Boy I think I resolved the issue now laugh, I didnt know about the following setting in BE2014 until this morning, accidently I came across. Wish Veritas support could have asked me to check this setting first before they spend nearly 2 hours on the phone other day, but no hard feelings.

    Anyway I was right from the get go , it had do be something in BE2014, which it was, I did a test backup and it did compress 1.42:1 on HP LTO3 tape.

     

    So this is how Hardware Compression feture needs to be enabled in BE2014. So im guessing that above Tracer logs trying to indicate that this feture was disbaled ?

     

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VALEXEC15
Level 3
9 years ago

Hi Craig,

 

Thanks for your reply

Yes Hardware compression is enabled already, ( I might check enabling software compression and see later today )

Note: There a  tape yesterday  which was showing as 2.4:1 compression, I erased it, made it a scratch tape before runninng the daily backup last night. Backup completed ok as usual , but now the tape is showing as 1:1 Compression again :(