# Documenting policy options **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [April 19, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/documenting-policy-options/389 "2021-04-19T12:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![smn.pgn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/smn.pgn/32/134_2.png) [@smn.pgn](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/smn.pgn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 9:59am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/documenting-policy-options/389/3 "2021-04-22T09:59:40Z")
Hi @budy, thanks a lot for your answer. Actually in the meantime I have found [this post](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/policy-schedule/74/2), and it looks like those options have no effect without a running server or UI. I believe this is typically something which could be mentioned in the help message. Concerning my third point, the help messages are already great as they are, but unfortunately I found myself digging in the argument parsing on GitHub because I was missing some essential info like the `--compression-min-size` unit I mentioned (which btw I confirm is measured in bytes). It would be really helpful to e.g. change the current message (_–compression-min-size=COMPRESSION-MIN-SIZE Min size of file to attempt compression for_) to something like (_–compression-min-size=INT Min size of file to attempt compression for [0 bytes]_). Another example is `--compression`, whose help message is currently _–compression=COMPRESSION Compression algorithm_: would be nice to add _–compression=\ Compression algorithm: choose [don’t compress]_. Thanks Simone --- _[View the full topic](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/documenting-policy-options/389)._