No, this function is not available,

best regards,

René Lambelet
Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
55, av. Nestlé  CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Wichmann [SMTP:gwichmann AT SANSIA DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 6:48 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Compressing Files
> 
> My understanding of TSM and compression is as follows. You can do
> compression on the client side and/or when the data is pushed to tape by
> the
> tape drive's compression capability... BUT you can't do it on the server
> side.
> For example if I find the load on my client boxes with compression on is
> too
> great (which we have found) and turn it off, the data being backed up is
> NOT
> compressed and goes into the initial pool (disk storage pool) as such. Not
> until it's pushed to tape does it actually receive any compression.
> 
> Can you get the server to compress the data before it gets put into the
> disk
> storage pools, thus saving disk storage pool space and reducing the load
> on
> clients?
> 
> Thanks!