Many thanks for all the help! -- Andrei
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 08:22 +0200, Michel Meyers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: > > Hi > > > > I can't find any documentation on software compression that comes with > > bacula. In particular, I would like to know whether the compression is > > done on the client or server side. The reason for that is I would like > > to minimise the traffic during the backup for the remote servers. > > Here's the respective section from the manual: > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION000147000000000000000 > - ---------------------- > compression=GZIP > All files saved will be software compressed using the GNU ZIP > compression format. The compression is done on a file by file basis by > the ***File daemon***. > > Software compression is very important if you are writing your > Volumes to a file, and it can also be helpful if you have a fast > computer but a slow network, otherwise it is generally better to rely > your tape drive's hardware compression. As noted above, it is not > generally a good idea to do both software and hardware compression. > - ---------------------- > > File daemon = the client and as the manual states, sw compression does > minimize the traffic on the network (OK, the manual says that it is > 'helpful if you have [...] a slow network'). > > > The second question is what types of compression is available? I found > > the reference that bacula supports GZIP compression. Is there support > > for BZIP? > > There's no support for bzip2. As far as I know, gzip is the only > compression format currently supported. > > Greetings, > Michel > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.958 > > iD8DBQFCuQOj2Vs+MkscAyURAkQFAKDSlM0G1zoH8K/T6mKP+zrnqrpxuQCghhgJ > YJJeG4I/kzXNfHIER/f5OYM= > =1ESk > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies > from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, > informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to > speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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