You also have the problem with DR when it doesn't compress quickly enough. The oldest problem - "you can't get a quart into a pint pot!".
I don't use compression having taken over a department with all compressed volumes and needing to restore serveral volumes without being able to purchase new disks. These things normally happen over the weekend after all! Tom On 2 Dec 2004 at 11:19, Troy Frank wrote: > Whether this can or will work, depends on a couple things. > > 1. If the source node had compressed volumes, you generally MUST > restore to another node with compressed volumes. > Sometimes you'll get lucky and the file wasn't compressed > on the source node. In that case, it may work. > > 2. Even if the source node & target node both have compressed > volumes, there's no garauntee that it'll work. TFS > compressed files will not restore to an NSS compressed > volume. Unfortunately, even the older versions of NSS > compressed files won't be restorable to newer NSS > compresssed volumes. As an example....NSS was first introduced > as a volume-type with Netware 5.1. NSS volumes on NW5.1 > are generally not very compatible with newer NSS volumes > on Netware 6 or 6.5. > > This is not to say that you won't get lucky and be able to break one > of these rules occassionally. However, I've found it to the be the > exception rather than the rule. > > > Troy Frank > Network Services > University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation > 608.829.5384 > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/2/2004 9:38:13 AM >>> > Mark, > > Saw your post from back in March about this but couldn't find any > replies. Any chance you remember what the fix was? I've just > encountered the same error ((TSAFS.NLM 6.50 333)An attempt was made to > put compressed data on non-compressed volume)) trying to restore some > data to a new (NSS) drive. > > ********************************************************************** > ******** Hi all, we are trying to restore our DAT: volume from one old > NetWare client to a new client....The restore started out fine, and > then detected a system error. " trying to restore compressed data to a > non compressed volume" Restore stopped....We are going to try to turn > compression on to the new volume, but Is there some issues with doing > this? I know in the past, we always told our Novell Admin's to turn > compression off because of this scenario...Thanks > > Thanks, Mark Hayden > ********************************************************************** > ******** > > thanks > > -- > Jim Kirkman > ITS Infrastructure > UNC-Chapel Hill > 919-698-8615 > Confidentiality Notice follows: > > The information in this message (and the documents attached to it, if > any) is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended > solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is > unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, > copying, distribution or any action taken, or omitted to be taken in > reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received > this message in error, please delete all electronic copies of this > message (and the documents attached to it, if any), destroy any hard > copies you may have created and notify me immediately by replying to > this email. Thank you. > ============================== Tom Anstey Institute of Molecular Medicine Oxford University Oxford OX3 9DS UK
