Hello,
We use compression, I don't use compressalways. If you don't validate
compressalways, client will try to compress file but if it grew it will
send the file not compressed.  It right that it speeder the send data
uncompressed. We used compression because we will have a lot of client
(> 1000) and it's to preserve network load. Backup are perform during
the day.
For server that were backup during the night we don't use compression
for large file server (Oracle), it's speeder.
I hope that help you
Eric

> ----------
> From:         Julie Phinney[SMTP:jphinney AT HUMANA DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         mercredi 18 mars 1998 05:21
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Compressalways option for V3 client
>
> I noticed the default in the V3 client has changed from compressalways
> NO
> to    compressalways YES.
> We don't use compression in any of our large local clients because
> it's
> always been faster to not compress.
> Have any of you switched from no compression to compression with your
> v3
> rollouts?   Is compression now significantly faster to justify this
> change
> of default?
> Should I use the new capability with V3 on the host to change all the
> clients back to compressalways NO?
> Thanks,
> Julie
>