IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Version 7.1

quiet client option

Two client options determine whether messages are displayed during backup operations: quiet and verbose. The verbose client option is the default option; it causes messages to be displayed in the output during client operations. The quiet client option can be set to suppress messages from being displayed.

When you set the quiet option, messages and summary information are still written to the log files, but they are not displayed in GUI or command-line output. The quiet option provides two main benefits that can improve client performance:

For tape backups, the first transaction group of data is always resent. To avoid the transaction from being resent, use the quiet option to reduce retransmissions at the client.
If you are using the client scheduler to schedule backups, the quiet option reduces entries in the schedule log, which might improve client throughput.

Although the quiet option can offer some modest performance improvements, consider using the default (verbose) option. The benefits of having messages displayed and logged can outweigh the performance gains that the quiet option provides.

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