Software compression

[mark1per]

Hi,

I am Running Windows 2000 server Veritas 8.6. Back up device is a Travan STT22000 and does not support hardware compression. The tapes are the Travan 10/20GB.
I have tried to use software compression through veritas but it does not seam to be working.

Can someone help me. It writes approx. 10.5GB and then asks for a new tape. The total amount of the back up is anout 12GB.

If I can get a full friday I will go with differencial but it will not compress the data. Please help.


Thanks in advance...Mark

 

[stevet3]

How did you determine the hardware doesnt do compression?
This is done by the firmware and can be turned on/off by the firmware utilities.

 

[TheDonMiguel]

Normally, a Travan supports hardware compression! I suggest you to update your firmware:

http://www.certance.com/support/firmware/type-travan

regards,
TDM

 

[mark1per]

I spoke with Certance and they said this particular Dirve does not support Hardware compression. No to mention that in the properties of Veritas it is greyed out. So it I had to use software compression which according to the logs is only compressing at 1.1:1 which is not enough. So I have to figure out if there is a way that the veritas software has a way to increase the ratio that does the compression so to speak.

Any ideas on that are welcome and thanks for all your hellp.

 

[justin2000]

no there is no way to increase the software compression within backup exec.