Mike,

The node is registered with the server (AIX) as compression="client's choice".
Compression works fine with regular adsm backups of the system.

The IS and DIR remain stable and haven't grown in a day.  This is a 85M test
database, and nothing was done to it yesterday.  Only compression was turned on.

What rate of compression should I be expecting?  Do the data compress well?

Eliza Lau
lau AT vt DOT edu
Virginia Tech Computing Center


>
> 1. Have you verified that the nodename used by the exchange agent is
> registered with the option
>     to decide if compression is done or not?  If the node was registered
> with compression forced off at
>     the ADSM server, the setting of the compression option on the agent
> will be ignored.
>
> 2. If the amount of data backed up on different days changes and you
> haven't changed the compression
>     option, then the different size is due to different data in the DIR
> and/or IS.  Whether compression is on or off
>     is not an issue if it is consistent for both runs.
>
>
> Chris Zaremba
> ADSM Agent Development
> internet  zaremba AT us.ibm DOT com
>