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EricB,
You probably know this, but I will mention it anyway.
When you compress, in most cases, you get around 80% compression. While this will save space on your tapes, it will also slow down recovery from the tape should that be necessary.
If this is data that is being archived for long term storage, then your need to compress would be a valid one.
Just remember, the more you do to the data to get it onto the tape, the longer it will take you to get it off of the tape later.
Also, you may want to look at "gzip" as well. It may get better compression than "compress", if I remember correctly.