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AgostinoX
Asked: 2012-07-25 05:17:33 +0800 CST

HP DAT 160 not compressing data

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I have an extenal HP DAT 160 USB. The system i use is a Windows Server 2003, i launch a backup over the device with NTBackup.
I cannot store in the dat more than 80 GB, that is the hardware compression seems not to work.

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1 Answers

  1. You need to make sure your system is using hardware compression.

    NTBackup had a bug in the early W2003 editions that disabled hardware compression by default. Microsoft has a support note and hotfix for this behavior.

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