Hi guys,
I'm a new entrant into the world of server administration, having only just finished installing a SBS 2003 server for our company. We have a IBM DD5 gen5 SCSI tape drive installed, and Symantec Backup Exec 10.0 (build 5520). The tape drive currently reports through the device manager that it is using Symantec drivers.
I've been running the first backup run, and the compression ratio is crap. In fact, there doesn't seem to be any compression! (the job is still running, so I can't check the actual ratio, but give that it's needed two tapes for 43GB, it can't be too good)
I've searched through the forums and seen a few other people with this issue, with a few suggestions for things to check.
Hardware compression is enabled (with software compression set as a backup). I haven't tested just doing the windows SBS backup yet, which I'm thinking will be the next step (I won't get a chance to do that until Monday though).
Does anyone have any further suggestions? As I mentioned, I'm fairly server noobie, so guided help is much appreciated!