According to my config.pl file : $Conf{CompressLevel} = '9';
So that's correct.
ppo-backup:/CLIENTBACKUPS# du -sh cpool/
12K cpool/
ppo-backup:/CLIENTBACKUPS# du -sm cpool/
1 cpool/
There's nothing in my cpool directory.
Thanks,
Heath
On Nov 10, 2009, at 1:34 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote:
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> Matthias Meyer wrote:
>> Heath Yob wrote:
>>
>>> It appears that I'm not getting any compression on my backups at
>>> least
>>> with my Windows clients.
>>> I think my mac clients are being compressed since it's actually
>>> stating a compression level in the host summary.
>>>
>>> I have the compression level set to 9.
>>>
>>> I have the Compress::Zlib perl library installed.
>>>
>>> ppo-backup:/home/heathy# perl -MCompress::Zlib -e "print \"Module
>>> installed.\\n\";"
>>> Module installed.
>>>
>>> Is there a secret to SMB compression?
>>>
>>> Heath
>>>
>> I don't believe compression constraint on transport.
>> Do you have files in /var/lib/backuppc/pool?
>> Check your configuration:
>> grep CompressLevel /etc/backuppc/*.p
>
> Keep in mind two things:
> 1) As above, there is no compression on the network level
> 2) Only new files not already stored in the pool will be compressed
> on disk.
>
> To see if it is working, just see if there are any files being added
> to
> the cpool folder:
> du -sm $TopDir/cpool
>
> Regards,
> Adam
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