TSM Client Compression

[jnegron]

Can someone explain me how client compression occurs? Does the compression happen in each client drive selected to be backup? Does it cache the new information with in the same drive? If so, is there’s a formula that I can use to calculate the space of cache needed to prevent a drive from filing up.

Thanks

 

[chad_small]

If compression is turned on in the client dsm.opt/dsm.sys the client does the compression using its CPU cycles and extra memory.