No compression on 20/40 DAT

[Goran_Jovanovic]

Hi,

I have hardware compression turned on my 2 x 20/40 HP DAT drives but BE 10 never does compression. In the media report for a tape the ratio is alway 1:1. I also have in the backup job Hardware compression if available turned on.

Am I missing something? What else is there to turn on to allow for compression? No the server drives are not already compressed.

Thanx
Goran

[Ashutosh_Tamhan]

Hello Goran,
The following technote will be informative to understand the issue of
why "Backups fail to get double the amount of the native capacity recorded
to a media, even when hardware compression is being utilized. "
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/199542.htm


Regards,
Ashutosh

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