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  3. September 2005

Backup compression

We have a couple of PC servers that we no longer back up to tape, but to an
external USB hard drive.  W2K Server using Backup Exec.  Space on the
external drive is not really an issue, backup speed is more important to me.

Question:  For compressing the data, is it better to a) not compress when
formatting the hard drive and use software compression in Backup Exec, or b)
format the hard drive as a compressed drive and use no compression in Backup
Exec.

OTOH, if speed is the issue, am I better off with no compression at all?
Anyone studied this?

I'm going to look online for some info.

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