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Bearcules · 03-14-2011

At my company we use LTO2 tapes with a 200/400 GB capacity to back up our data nightly. Until recently we consistently got compression ratio's of close to 2:1 on these tapes using hardware compression. Recently we got a new set of tapes which at be...

Bearcules · 03-22-2011

I think we narrowed the problem down to a set of files on one of our servers. Thanks everyone, for all your help!

Bearcules · 03-14-2011

I tried doing the compression test with the older tapes and the new tapes as directed by Kiran Bandi: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH78389. The results were the same with both, and the compression was 45.5:1. So does this mean there is nothing wro...

Bearcules · 03-14-2011

Thank you for the quick response! Is there a reason it would vary from day to day? We are backing up roughly the same data every day, and as far as I know it is not compressed on the servers.

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Problem with Compression Ratio

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I tried doing the compression

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