From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Steve Bennett
>We are considering use of client side compression on some of 
>our netware tsm 5.2 clients.
>
>Netware is set to compress files that haven't been used in 7 
>days. I found some doc that said even with "compress yes" the 
>tsm client will not compress netware compressed files before 
>sending. But what about when the file goes from netware 
>uncompressed to compressed?
>
>For instance, I create file A on the netware box today and 
>during the nightly backup it gets processed. Then the file 
>isn't touched for 7 days so netware compresses it. Does the 
>tsm client then backup the file again because it changed?

I'm confused about something. If memory serves, NetWare compression
doesn't actually compress individual files; my understanding is that it
compresses the entire volume structure. (This was the reason that you
couldn't restore compressed NetWare files to an uncompressed volume, and
vice versa.)

Or are you running a utility that compresses a single file at a time?

(Why do you want to run client compression in the first place?
Constricted network bandwidth?)

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