ARCHLOGCOMPRESS

You can enable or disable compression of archive logs on the Tivoli® Storage Manager server. By compressing the archive logs, you reduce the amount of space that is required for storage.

The ARCHLOGCOMPRESS server option specifies whether log files that are written to the archive directory for logs are compressed.

Syntax


                    .-No--.   
>>-ARCHLOGCOMPress--+-----+------------------------------------><
                    '-Yes-'

Parameters

No: Specifies that log files that are written to the archive log directory are not compressed. The default is No.
Yes: Specifies that log files that are written to the archive log directory are compressed.

Restriction: Use caution when you enable the ARCHLOGCOMPRESS server option on systems with sustained high volume usage and heavy workloads. Enabling this option in this system environment can cause delays in archiving log files from the active log file system to the archive log file system. This delay can cause the active log file system to run out of space. Be sure to monitor the available space in the active log file system after archive log compression is enabled. If the active log directory file system usage nears out of space conditions, the ARCHLOGCOMPRESS server option must be disabled. You can use the SETOPT command to disable archive log compression immediately without halting the server.

Example

To enable compression of log files that are written to the archive log directory, specify the following option:

archlogcompress yes