At 09:31 AM 6/30/2016, Tom Alverson wrote:
>I will
>try the compressalways yes setting but hopefully that won't override the
>exclusions I have set up for common compressed files.

No, compressalways will not override exclude.compress.  The option simply says 
not to retry if compression grows the size.

The legacy LZW compression can grow files that are already in a compressed 
format.  The newer LZ4 compression should not grow an already compressed file.  
In that respect, it's similar to the compression that LTO tape drives can do.

..Paul



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