Using On-the-wire Compression

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Published : September 27, 2005

Compression decreases the size of data being transferred during replica creation and synchronization and allows more data throughput with less impact to network performance. However, this option adds to the CPU load on both the DPM server and the protected file servers. The amount of compression and improvement on network performance depends on workload.

Compression is enabled at the protection group level and applies to replica creation, synchronization, and consistency check operations. Recovery jobs always use compression.

For instructions on enabling compression, see “How to modify protection options” (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=51911) in DPM Help.