Re: [LUG] Backup

[John Daragon <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 15:47, Jon Still wrote:

snip...

> > The good news is DDS-1 tapes are highly portable, and can be
> > read be all later DDS standards! The bad news is they aren't
> > very long.
>
> I understand this is 2GB raw, 4GB uncompressed.  What can I use to compress
> the data - is gzip going to play nicely with tape devices?

What they mean is that, if you enable hardware compression on the drive 
itself, it will tend to accept about 4GB of data on a 2GB tape. Of course, if 
you precompress the data then the drive will have a real problem compressing 
it any further...

jd

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