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Re: Re[2]: Backup (hardware) for Linux




On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:

> udif@usa.net (Udi Finkelstein) wrote:
> 
> >  DDS2
> >  Includes hardware compression (I've never heard about a DDS2 drive
> >  with no compression engine built in)
> 
> For example, SONY SDT-5200. Very good drive. BTW, I think hardware
> compression isn't important. The compression is usually not very good
> (like w/ compress(1)), 

that's why Amanda (the software I recommended you) gzips up dumps before
backing up. if I ever get the time, I'll engineer it to switch to bzip2
maybe. gzip is better comression than the DDS-2's hardware comression.