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hardware compression on hp 1/8 g2 autoloader

 
iseben
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‎08-06-2009 07:16 AM

‎08-06-2009 07:16 AM

hardware compression on hp 1/8 g2 autoloader

Is hardware compression enabled by default? I am using Netbackup and my tapes are being marked as full around 400 GB. I thought compressed, LTO3 tapes could go up to 800gb?
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Stephan.
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‎08-06-2009 10:37 AM

‎08-06-2009 10:37 AM

Re: hardware compression on hp 1/8 g2 autoloader

Hi iseben,
i'm not 100% sure but usually it should be enabled by default.

You can use ltt (Library & Tape Tools): http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?pnameOID=406731&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodSeriesId=406729&prodTypeId=12169
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