Hi all,
This is my first post on this forum ... yay!, However it is pain and hardship that has brought me here. Our BE is setup to "Hardware Compression else none" for full and diff jobs, xtalk utility reports that compression on the drive (Dell PV-100T-Dat72) is enabled the drive does however recignize the DAT72 tapes correctly (heard this was an issue perhaps in previous versions?). However jobs still finish at a compression ratio of 1:1 with not a singly byte in the byte count different between before and after. When i run NTbackup however just for comparisons sake compression does work. Not sure at the exact ratios i just chose files that were larger than 36GB and ran it to verify that it wasn't a hardware issue. so that leads me back to BE as the issue... however i am a fairly new user with the system so it is entirely possible that there is a mistake in my configuration somewhere. thats where you come in... any ideas what i can look at to find my underlying issues?
Thanks so much in advance this has been driving me nuts now for about 2 weeks!
Oh BTW I have tried every driver under the sun for this tape drive and all yield the same results as well i am using the most up to date firmware that dell has to offer for my drive...
Thanks again!
Chris