Re: Any downside to compressing exchsrvr folder and subfolders

From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 06/27/04


Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:44:48 -0700

Yeah.. don't do that.

On that tape backup, you don't need to backup the leftover patches in
the Windows directory.... go through that harddrive and clean up badmail
directories, etc. You can probably clean up a bit and buy some time.

RM Denton wrote:
> My information store is growing and my tape backup is
> trying to grow to 2 tapes. The tapes are 20g or 40g
> compressed. I haven't set anything to compress because I
> am not sure if it will create problems. Compressing would
> solve my tape backup capacity problem.
>
> Has anyone experienced any problem after setting exchange
> server folders, system folders or any other folders to
> compress?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.

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