Well, I guess I am being tripped up my engineer's mind. I want the product to work consistently, not arbitrarily. And to work according to the manual. In the Unix client manual in the section on processing options it says:
* Most options that you enter on the command line override the value set in the preferences file. However, when you use the domain option with the incremental command, it adds to the domain specified in your client options file rather than overriding the current value. This implies that "-compression=no" should override "compression yes" in the dsm.sys file. In fact, isn't that kind of the point of allowing line-mode options, to override what is in the dsm.sys file? Best Regards, John D. Schneider Phone: 314-364-3150 Cell: 314-750-8721 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How do I override compression setting? That is the question: does the compress=no on the command line override the compress yes in the dsm.sys? Apparently not. The docs state, though, that the exclude.compression will override the dsm.sys. Might be you only option. Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 x7105 www.storserver.com -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How do I override compression setting? Kelly, It is good to know an option like that exists, thanks. But that is not really my question. What is wrong with what I am doing? I don't see any mistakes in my configuration. When I create a schedule and put "-compression=n" in the options for the schedule, the TSM client should turn compression off for that schedule, right? I shouldn't have to put a special exclude in, should I? Best Regards, John D. Schneider Phone: 314-364-3150 Cell: 314-750-8721 Email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 12:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How do I override compression setting? How about exclude.compression on that filespace? exclude.compression Excludes files from compression processing if the compression option is set to yes. This option applies to backups and archives. Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 x7105 www.storserver.com -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schneider, John Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] How do I override compression setting? Greetings, I have a specific NFS filesystem on a TSM AIX client that I need to backup without compression because the files are very large and already compressed, so it is pointless to compress them. But compression is "yes" in the dsm.sys file because I want to compress the other filesystems. The TSM client definition for compression is set to "client", so presumably the client can choose to either compress or not. Here is the dsmsched.log of the schedule. Note that I turn off compression in the schedule: 03/10/09 10:00:38 ------------------------------------------------------------ 03/10/09 10:00:38 Schedule Name: @1002 03/10/09 10:00:38 Action: Incremental 03/10/09 10:00:38 Objects: /mnt/mksysb 03/10/09 10:00:38 Options: -subdir=y -compression=n 03/10/09 10:00:38 Server Window Start: 09:57:56 on 03/10/09 03/10/09 10:00:38 ------------------------------------------------------------ 03/10/09 10:00:38 Executing scheduled command now. 03/10/09 10:00:38 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN @1002 03/10/09 09:57:56 03/10/09 10:00:38 Incremental backup of volume '/mnt/mksysb' 03/10/09 10:00:45 ANS1898I ***** Processed 500 files ***** 03/10/09 10:00:50 ANS1898I ***** Processed 1,000 files ***** .... Buncha lines skipped... 03/10/09 10:02:12 ANS1898I ***** Processed 5,500 files ***** 03/10/09 10:07:02 Normal File--> 2,489,241,600 /mnt/mksysb/osba ckup/eeyore/eeyore-03082009 ANS1360I Compressed Data Grew 03/10/09 10:13:05 Normal File--> 2,489,241,600 /mnt/mksysb/osba ckup/eeyore/eeyore-03082009 [Sent] 03/10/09 10:13:05 Successful incremental backup of '/mnt/mksysb' 03/10/09 10:13:05 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 03/10/09 10:13:05 Total number of objects inspected: 5,624 03/10/09 10:13:05 Total number of objects backed up: 1 03/10/09 10:13:05 Total number of objects updated: 0 03/10/09 10:13:05 Total number of objects rebound: 0 03/10/09 10:13:05 Total number of objects deleted: 0 03/10/09 10:13:05 Total number of objects expired: 0 03/10/09 10:13:05 Total number of objects failed: 0 03/10/09 10:13:05 Total number of bytes transferred: 3.93 GB 03/10/09 10:13:05 Data transfer time: 8.86 sec Why am I still getting "ANS1360I Compressed Data Grew" when the options for the schedule are "-compression=n"? It shouldn't be trying to compress, should it? We are running TSM client 5.4.2.0, and TSM server 5.4.3.0 on AIX, in case that matters. Best Regards, John D. Schneider Lead Systems Administrator - Storage Sisters of Mercy Health Systems 3637 South Geyer Road St. Louis, MO 63127 Phone: 314-364-3150 Cell: 314-750-8721 Email: [email protected] This e-mail contains information which (a) may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE, and (b) is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering this to the addressee(s), you are notified that reading, copying or distributing this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately. This e-mail contains information which (a) may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE, and (b) is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. 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