Gawd! Yeah, that's a doozy, and far too common. The idea of monkeying around
with the only thing standing between you and data loss is truly scary.
Regards
HJR
"Sean M" <smckeownNO_at_BACKSIESearthlink.net> wrote in message
news:3CD1CD67.6EA5A421_at_BACKSIESearthlink.net...
> "Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
> >
> > No, it is supported (well, you can certainly do it, anyway). But I agree
> > entirely: it's a daft thing to do in my book. Partly for the reasons you
> > give. Partly because compression doesn't come free: decompressing
requires
> > CPU cycles. Partly because compression algorithms are a potential source
of
> > future corruption and errors, possibly. Partly because disk space is
> > relatively cheap.
>
> Agreed, for all of the above reasons. I'm even nervous of the
> relatively common practice of compressing archive logs before running
> them to tape. Scares me, mostly due to the possibility of
> corruption/errors, etc.
>
> Regards,
> Sean
Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 18:39:49 CDT
