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cheers, wayne

Weber, Philip wrote:
> The ones compressed by Veritas are have been compressed with 'compress' 
> so that is what I was going to use.  Would NBU know it hadn't done it?
>  
> Is there any way to make NBU do its compression?
>  
> Phil
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emmanuel Korkodilos [mailto:ekorkodilos AT cptech DOT com]
> Sent: 18 June 2003 14:12
> To: Weber, Philip
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Compression
> 
> Phil,
>  
> You can NOT compress these backups manually. This is because NBU does 
> not know how you compressed them (ie: compress, tar, zip, gzip, sit, 
> rar, etc) and when so it can not read them when it will need to for restore.
>  
> If you think this is a good feature for a future release of NBU, you can 
> send an email to pm AT veritas DOT com <mailto:pm AT veritas DOT com>.
>  Whenever I want them to add a feature, I send it the request to that 
> email address.
>  
> -Manny
>  
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>     [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Weber,
>     Philip
>     Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:50 AM
>     To: Veritas BU (veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu)
>     Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Compression
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     My "Delay to Compress Database" is set to 14 days, but I find .f
>     files under the image directory have not been compressed, at least
>     for 30 days.
> 
>     I believe this is because our environment is too busy (long running
>     backups, backups running 24*7) for the bpsched cleanup type
>     processes to get a look in.
> 
>     Can I compress these files manually or does Netbackup keep track
>     internally of what has been compressed?
> 
>     Netbackup 3.4, Solaris 2.6.
> 
>     thanks, Phil
> 
>     Phil Weber
>     Egg Distributed Hosts - UNIX Systems Engineer
>     Phone: 01384 26 4136
>     Mobile:
> 
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