Check out the NWIGNORECOMPRESSBIT option. Regards,
Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. "Good enough" is the enemy of excellence. "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/30/2004 11:49:46: > Mark, > > First, let me say I don't do netware. My netware admins indicate that > compression happens at the file level but then maybe we're both confused. > > We are going to client compression because of a few clients with network > restrictions but more because we are replacing most of our primary tape > storage with a large local sata. Client cpu is cheaper than a bigger > sata. There won't be much (if any) data in the onsite tapepool which > gets compressed by the drives. > > Stapleton, Mark wrote: > > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Steve Bennett > > > >>We are considering use of client side compression on some of > >>our netware tsm 5.2 clients. > >> > >>Netware is set to compress files that haven't been used in 7 > >>days. I found some doc that said even with "compress yes" the > >>tsm client will not compress netware compressed files before > >>sending. But what about when the file goes from netware > >>uncompressed to compressed? > >> > >>For instance, I create file A on the netware box today and > >>during the nightly backup it gets processed. Then the file > >>isn't touched for 7 days so netware compresses it. Does the > >>tsm client then backup the file again because it changed? > > > > > > I'm confused about something. If memory serves, NetWare compression > > doesn't actually compress individual files; my understanding is that it > > compresses the entire volume structure. (This was the reason that you > > couldn't restore compressed NetWare files to an uncompressed volume, and > > vice versa.) > > > > Or are you running a utility that compresses a single file at a time? > > > > (Why do you want to run client compression in the first place? > > Constricted network bandwidth?) > > > > -- > > Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Berbee Information Networks > > Office 262.521.5627 > > > > -- > > Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783 > State of Alaska, Enterprise Technology Services, Technical Services Section
