There used to be an option for Netware called:

NWIGNORECOMpressbit

I have not worked with NetWare for a while but this option would do what it
sounds like it does - not re-backup the file when NetWare compresses it.

Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bennett [mailto:steve_bennett AT ADMIN.STATE.AK DOT US]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:07 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: tsm client for netware and netware file compression

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?

One TSM server is v5.1.8 and another is v5.2.3.2 both runing on win2000
boxes.

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Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783
State of Alaska, Enterprise Technology Services, Technical Services Section