Hi Henrico

Thanks for your response. I'm a business analyst and unfortunately not very technical. However, I have run this past our technical specialist, and this is the answer he came up with:

I have just got off the phone with SNAP support. They have confirmed that there are no settings for data/file compression on the SNAP server. The server basically gives raw disk to the clients.

The only thing that he suggested we check is the file attributes to see if they are being affected/changed by the copying or backup process.

I have included all the details of the SNAP server and configuration.

SNAP Server details:

Model: 18000 Software: 5.1.046 Hardware: 06.00.00 Server # 900246 BIOS: SN73B03

Storage: Head Unit (1800 - 8 drives - total 1.83TB), Expansion Unit1 (SD30SA – 16 drives – 3.65TB), Expansion Unit2 (SD30SA – 16 drives – 3.65TB)

Volume configuration for sage-bi / actrolsql

6 * 234GB drives in RAID 5 – 1.13TB usable (810.25GB currently free)

One volume – BUVOL0

Two shares – backup_sage & backup_sma

Access Security: Full access to Domain Admins & Snap admins (everything else denied)

Allowed Access protocols for shares: SMB-NFS-AFP-HTTP-FTP

Please let me know if you have any further questions - we may actually get our technical specialist jumping in on this thread to communicate with you directly.

Thanks very much

Regards

Ina