Pity that DAOS isn't really a client tool though I can well imagine the chaos that could be created if it were. On a whim, I downloaded the DAOS estimator and tried it on my client. Not only did it work, as expected, but heres a couple of snippets from the results:
Summary:
Total DB's analyzed: 475
Total DB's skipped due to errors: 6
Total Size of NSF's Examined: 10.3 GB
Total Attachments found: 13583
Total Duplicate Attachments found: 1622
Total DAOS Eligible Attachments: 13583
Estimated Size of DAOSified NSF's: 6.2 GB
Estimate Size of DAOS dir: 4.2 GB
Total Disk Savings: 287.0 MB
While the actual savings are not huge: 287mb, and I expect that most of that is the 1622 duplicate attachments, it does show that there's 4.2Gb of DAOS-elegible attachments on my laptop, which could be got out of Notes databases, reducing them by 4.2Gb - which surely would help the NSF engine.
And here's the summary of one database:
Database Name Orig NSF New NSF Num DAOS Dup Compr Space DAOS Ob
Size Size Files Files Files Size Savings Size
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ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.nsf 47.8 MB 14.1 MB 51 51 5 33.7 MB 0.5 KB 33.2 MB
That's not bad at all; 33.2Mb of attachments pulled out, and which would not get backed up every time the database is backed up. Check out your servers with this tool, and see if the numbers generated help your case for a Domino 8.5 upgrade. Comments (0)
Mick Moignard January 25th, 2009 09:10:49 AM