This technote talks about what happens when you manually compress the image
files (bad!). 
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/241301.htm

Also notes some options for another command without a man page, bpimage. 

        bpimage: -[de]compress [-allclients | -client <name>]

This will do what you want. 

John Nardello 
T-Mobile: Enterprise Backup Group 
Desk: 425-424-7742 
"Your backups are only as good as your restores." 

-----Original Message-----
From: Weber, Philip [mailto:Philip.Weber AT egg DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:44 AM
To: 'ekorkodilos AT cptech DOT com'; Veritas BU (veritas-bu AT 
mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu)
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Compression


The ones compressed by Veritas are have been compressed with 'compress' so
that is what I was going to use.  Would NBU know it hadn't done it?

Is there any way to make NBU do its compression?

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Emmanuel Korkodilos [mailto:ekorkodilos AT cptech DOT com] 
Sent: 18 June 2003 14:12
To: Weber, Philip
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Compression


Phil,

You can NOT compress these backups manually. This is because NBU does not
know how you compressed them (ie: compress, tar, zip, gzip, sit, rar, etc)
and when so it can not read them when it will need to for restore.

If you think this is a good feature for a future release of NBU, you can
send an email to pm AT veritas DOT com.
 Whenever I want them to add a feature, I send it the request to that email
address.

-Manny

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Weber, 
Philip
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:50 AM
To: Veritas BU (veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu)
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Compression


Hi, 
My "Delay to Compress Database" is set to 14 days, but I find .f files under
the image directory have not been compressed, at least for 30 days.
I believe this is because our environment is too busy (long running backups,
backups running 24*7) for the bpsched cleanup type processes to get a look
in.
Can I compress these files manually or does Netbackup keep track internally
of what has been compressed? 
Netbackup 3.4, Solaris 2.6. 
thanks, Phil 
Phil Weber 
Egg Distributed Hosts - UNIX Systems Engineer 
Phone: 01384 26 4136 
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