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Tape hardware compression

  • 8 August 2022
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Hi, 

i have check on mi commvault server and i have enable the hardware compression on datapath on storage policy copy of primary global!

But my tape are lto8 and there are written only 10Tb  while the spec ar 30Tb

can anyone help me to check?

thanks

 

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Best answer by Collin Harper 8 August 2022, 16:17

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Hello @Xb-Wolf 

With hardware based compression, the compression of data occurs after we send it to the tape library\drive. Since the hardware is doing the compression we cannot report the compressed size because its happening after we write the data. We are only able to report on the uncompressed size when hardware compression is being used.

 

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Collin

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Hello Collin, i don't understand! you mean that i see 10Tb on commvault but the storage data can be more? 

Where i can see correctly size? and check if the hardware compression are correctly use?

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Hello @Xb-Wolf 

Thank you for your patience. The tape library GUI should tell you the size of data on the tape.

 

Thank you,
Collin

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Native backup have full guaranteed .

No Guaranteed, If we take backup with compression (hardware/ software) not sure that how much data compressed.

It just selling strategic policy.

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