Any downside to compressing files in exchsrvr folder

[RMDenton]

My information store is growing and my tape backup is trying to grow to 2 tapes. The tapes are 20g or 40g compressed. I haven't set anything to compress because I am not sure if it will create problems. Compressing would solve my tape backup capacity problem.

Has anyone experienced any problem after setting exchange server folders, system folders or any other folders to compress?

Thanks in advance for the help.

RMDenton

 

[Marcs41]

You really should not mess with that, it will cause performance decreases.
To my opinion, you either spread the backups, or invest in a larger tape-device.

Marc
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[rhinotek]

Just a note: depending on your recent Exchange Activity you may want to do an offline defrag of you edb(s). Check this KB article for more info, 328804. It is for Exchange 2000 but I do believe the online maintenance in Exchange 2003 works the same as Exchange 2000.

P.S. Just out of curiosity how big is the priv.edb?