The reason I was wondering if you were looking in the correct place is because there should be more than just 7 files and 5 dirs in your /etc directory. For example there is no hosts file either in your dir command output, which exists by default on every filer.
If there is no snapmirror.conf file you can create one.
Filerview will create snapmirror.conf file entries on the destination, if it didnt then your relationships could have been setup by protection manager, your lag times do not look incredibly old so something is triggering your snapmirror udpates if not snapmirror.conf.
If you want to use compression you have to create a connection name, and if your using protection manager and want to use compression the connection name has to match the hostname of the source system.
The way to create a connection name is to put this line at the begining of snapmirror.conf which defines a connection called connection1
connection1 = multi (source_IP,destination_IP) (source_IP,destination_IP)
if you only want to enable compression then only one (source_IP,destination_IP) entry is ok.
then use the connection1 name in place of the hostname of the souce on a line that defines the snapmirror relationship like this:
connection1:source_vol destination:destination_vol compression=enable - - - -
As I said above replace "connection1" with the hostname of your source filer.
BTW, you should look into why you see so few files in your etc directory. For example, since you have cifs shares on that filer you should have a /etc/cifsconfig_shares.cfg file, which I don't see in your list either. A filer I just checked in the lab has 117 files and folders under /etc.
