We had it on in the tdp piece and discovered on our smaller server systems (H70 with 1TB db) ran better without compression on. On our larger system (S85 with 2 TB db) we have TDP compression on but can not run TSM compression because it slows the backup. TDP compression only eliminates white space. Becky
-----Original Message----- From: brian welsh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help on TDP for SAP R/3 Oracle Hello, Server AIX 5.1, TSM 4.2.2.8. Client AIX 4.3, TSM 4.2.1.35, and TDP 3.2.0.11 Question about compression. We forced compression for this client at server-side, by setting option Compression at client-node options to server. In client-option file there is no compression-option. We thought that this will be enough to compress also TDP -backup and archive data. We checked and there is no compression. Tivoli Support say first that TDP is compressing the files always, it a feature of TDP. And later they say we have to activate this in TDP on the client. I'm wondering how other sites set compression in this situation. On the server, in TDP, on the client, ... Thanx, Brian. _________________________________________________________________ Chatten met je online vrienden via MSN Messenger. http://messenger.msn.nl/
