* Hall, Christian N. <HallC at SEC.GOV> [2006-08-16 08:57]:
> Wow. Inline hardware compression is one of the reasons we purchased it.
> Why have you been not able to get the compression cards to work?

We came into it very early, for one thing.  I think we were one of the
first companies to use it, if not _the_ first.  There were several bugs
in the hardware that took quite a while for them to address.  I don't
know off hand if we ever got a chance to go back to trying it again.
The issue was that you have to reformat the box to make the switch, so
if it doesn't work, you need to bpduplicate ALL the images off to real
tape before the compression cards can be swapped for normal cards or
vice-versa.  

I have been out of the backup team officially for almost a year, so I
can't speak directly to current hardware status.  Maybe they've fixed
it?  I would keep it in mind and try testing heavily if possible.  You
may want to also mention it to Quantum to see what shakes loose ;-)

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com