Enable or Disable Software Compression for a Subclient

Before you Begin

• Do not enable/disable software compression for a subclient that is being backed up/archived.

Required Capability: Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To enable software compression for a subclient:

1. From the CommCell Browser, right-click the subclient for which you wish to enable software compression and then click Properties.
2. Click the Storage Device tab and from the Data Storage Policy tab, select the storage policy from the Storage Policy list.

   If applicable for the selected agent, click the Log Storage Policy tab and select a storage policy from the Transaction Log Storage Policy list.

3. Click the Storage Device (Data Transfer Option) tab and choose the appropriate compression option for this subclient.
   • On Client to enable compression on the client computer.
   • On MediaAgent to enable compression on the MediaAgent computer.
   • Use Storage Policy Settings to use the settings enabled on the deduplication storage policy copy.

     When this option is enabled on the subclient, the backup jobs currently running for this subclient will not reflect the compression settings on the Job Details dialog box, that is the Software Compression field in the Backup Job Details dialog box of the running job displays as Off even though the backup job uses compression. You can ignore this and continue running the jobs. The status of Software Compression field is displayed correctly after completion of a job.

   • Off to disable the compression.
4. Click OK to save your changes.

This task is now complete.