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Storageworks dat 72 hardware compression

 
Michael Scherer
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‎01-31-2006 05:57 AM

‎01-31-2006 05:57 AM

Storageworks dat 72 hardware compression

I have an external scsi drive (c7438a)that according to L&TT is not performing any hardware compression. The HP driver was replaced by a veritas driver when I installed backup exec and it seemed to be compressing data at that time. I'm not sure when it stopped compressing.

How do I enable compression again? Thanks.
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Lewis Finch
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‎01-31-2006 06:54 AM

‎01-31-2006 06:54 AM

Re: Storageworks dat 72 hardware compression

The DAT 72 has hardware compression enabled by default so it sounds like you have software compression enabled. can't do both
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Michael Scherer
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‎02-01-2006 03:17 AM

‎02-01-2006 03:17 AM

Re: Storageworks dat 72 hardware compression

I don't believe I have enabled software compression. My Backup exec was set to hardware compression only until yesterday when I changed it to software compression if hardware is unavailable. By the way that change did not work either.

I have also tried using Retrospect 7 instead of Backup exec and I continue to get the same compression problem.
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