Compressed snapshots Question?

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  1. Birdman

    Birdman Registered Member

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    Currently on my partition I have 3 snapshots......

    PRIMARY (working)

    Secondary (daily backup)

    Weekly (compressed)


    Since the "Weekly" snapshot in COMPRESSED, can I boot into this and use it to update the Primary (if ever needed)?

    Does it automatically un-compress itself when you boot to this snapshot?

    Can someone please "school" me on FD-ISR compressed snapshots? Thanks.
     
  2. screamer

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    ===================================================================
    V. Version 1.1 Release Notes
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    Compressed Snapshots
    --------------------

    A snapshot can now be compressed. This means that all the files in
    the snapshot are compressed using NTFS file compression.

    Only a new snapshot can be compressed. An existing snapshot cannot
    be converted. Use "<New Compressed Snapshot>" in the Copy Wizard
    or the INITC command in the command line interface.

    Once a snapshot is compressed it stays compressed. All updates of
    the snapshot are compressed.

    A copy of a compressed snapshot is not compressed unless the target
    snapshot is explicitly created as compressed.

    An archive of a compressed snapshot is not compressed. That is, if
    you restore an archive of a compressed snapshot the resultant
    snapshot is not compressed unless the snapshot is explicitly
    created as compressed.

    ...screamer
     
  3. Birdman

    Birdman Registered Member

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    Thanks for the info. So if I boot to a compressed snapshot....it will no longer be compressed, right?
     
  4. screamer

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    I don't use compressed SS, but from this line I gather it will not be compressed:

    A copy of a compressed snapshot is not compressed unless the target
    snapshot is explicitly created as compressed.


    ...screamer
     
  5. EASTER.2010

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    Whats the big stink about over COMPRESSED snapshots except that it saves just a little more space then not. Inquiring minds would like to know because the functionality REMAINS THE SAME either/or :cool: Right?
     
  6. tradetime

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    One might be forgiven for asking, if the functionality remains the same, why aren't all snapshots compressed by default?
     
  7. flinchlock

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    From FD-ISR Help file (ISRHelp21.chm)...
    Those are all the sentences that contain the word compress.

    Mike
     
  8. Peter2150

    Peter2150 Global Moderator

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    I suspect that the compressed snapshots probably slow things down a bit. If work in one every time you access a file it has to decompress it and then recompress it. Also one of the now gone Raxco support guys explained to me that when you compress files, the defrag api leaves space between files for the decomress, and thus you end up with a highly fragmented drive, ie like the archives.

    Is all this good or bad. I don't use them as space is a non issue.
     
  9. EASTER.2010

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    Thnx, i suppose the key word intended here then is significantly smaller



    Anyone who considers using any rollback snapshot program like FD-ISR should already have made provision for ample space due to accommadate those duplicates of their active system. Like Peter2150, space is of no concern for me either.
     
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