Send to local server for compression - question

    I read in another thread that you can transfer a study from/to the same conquest server in order to compress it, after changing the configuration to store images compressed.


    My question is, does that result in 2 sets of images, one compressed and one not? Do I have to delete the uncompressed study manually?


    Another sort-of related question - I'm going to be migrating data from another server (non-conquest) to Conquest. It is probable that some cases will be sent twice (at least!) by accident - Will Conquest store duplicates with different UIDs, or will it reject them as duplicates?


    Regards,


    Brian

    Hi,


    conquest stores stuff based on UIDs. So recompressing or sending thing twice will NOT make duplicates. Re-sending anything will overwrite what was there before. If you send stuff to itself, it is read into memory, possibly compressed and written over the original file on disk. Note: depending on the filenames, you are stuck with NKI compression (for V2 files) or JPEG compression (for DCM files). I would backup (part of) your data before compressing it just to be sure all is OK.


    Marcel

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