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Use the advanced database property Compress document data to reduce the total cost of ownership of maintaining any Notes® database by compressing non-summary item data in all documents in a selected database. Document compression can provide up to a sixty percent size saving.
To compress new documents in a selected database
About this task
You can enable compression for all new documents yet to be created in an existing database.
Procedure
1. Open the database and select File -> Application -> Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab. (The icon on this tab is a beanie.)
3. Click Compress document data.
To compress existing documents in a selected database
After enabling compression for new documents, you can also enable compression for existing documents in a specified database by running a copy-style compact on the database. Enter this command:
load compact -c filename.nsf
To compress new documents in a set of selected databases
You can enable compression for all new documents yet to be created in a set of existing databases.
Note: The Advanced Database Properties are available only to those administrators listed in the Administrators field on the Security tab of the Server document.
1. Open the Domino® Administrator Client.
2. Select one or more databases in the files pane.
3. In the tools pane, select Database -> Advanced Properties. Or drag selected databases to the Advanced Properties tool.
4. Click Compress document data.
5. Close the Advanced Properties tool.
To compress documents in all existing databases on a server
Enabling compression at the server level ensures that new document data compresses in all databases. You can add the copy-style compact command to compress existing document data
At the server console, run the following command:
load compact -v -c
To decompress documents in all existing databases on a server
At the server console, run the following command to decompress new and existing document data:
load compact -V -c
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