Re: Antwort: Re: using compression on netware tsm clients

2001-07-17 Thread Michael Oski
Keep in mind that Netware volumes have a feature for compressing the actual files located on disk. Is the process running uncompressing Netware-compressed files, then recompressing them via TSM? I've had issues several years ago where this was the case. MO On Friday, July 13, 2001, at 07:52 AM,

Re: Antwort: Re: using compression on netware tsm clients

2001-07-13 Thread Richard Sims
>The solution cannot be to use more powerfull clients. Hmm. Given that, and whereas it takes 10x longer for the client to do backups with compression than without, does your client backup log show retries with compression? I'm wondering if it's something like having COMPRESSAlways No in effect

Antwort: Re: using compression on netware tsm clients

2001-07-13 Thread Juergen Heinrich
Hi John, thank you for your prompt answer. The client machine are very powerfull because they are used as file and print servers for over 500 users. (Compaq ProLiant Server) The same machines are used as Notes Servers under Windows NT and the compression works. The solution cannot be to use more

Re: using compression on netware tsm clients

2001-07-13 Thread Lindsay Morris
Look at idlewait (client think time and compression time, comm wait (network time), and media wait (TSM server time) in the accounting log (server-dir/dsmaccnt.log - you may need to SET ACCOUNTING ON) Then you can definitely see where the slowdown is. Compression on a low-end client will slow th

Re: using compression on netware tsm clients

2001-07-13 Thread John Naylor
Juergen, Looks like your client machines are not powerful enough. John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy plc. It i