Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-19 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Some time ago, I've made some tests on a customer site. They have plenty data that could be compressed ( a 75% ratio ) With GZIP ( which is equal to gzip default level 6 ) we loose hours of compression to obtain finally only a 78% ratio

[Bacula-users] tapes not fully written

2009-07-19 Thread ict Mapper ict department
Bacula version: (26 July 2008) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu debian 4.0 backup unit/changer: HP storageworks MSL2024 LTO3 Hello, We have a real weird problem. Tapes are not fully written. But this is not in all cases. The problem seems to concentrate around our monthly backups. When the tapes are

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-19 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Some time ago, I've made some tests on a customer site. They have plenty data that could be compressed ( a 75% ratio ) With GZIP ( which is equal to gzip default level 6 ) we loose hours of compression to obtain

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-19 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Most of the data are compressible ( exchange server storage, and Navision Database ) at a 75% rate with gzip2 we have 78% with gzip6 but it double easyly the time need to obtain it. So sometime it doesn't help to try to do big compression.

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes not fully written

2009-07-19 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:51 AM, ict Mapper ict departmenti...@mapperlithography.com wrote: Bacula version: (26 July 2008) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu debian 4.0 backup unit/changer: HP storageworks MSL2024 LTO3 Hello, We have a real weird problem. Tapes are not fully written. But this is not in

[Bacula-users] Describe a restore operation of Windows data

2009-07-19 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm not a bacula user... but have experimented several yrs ago with it. I'm currently using Retrospect pro but it is only good for 2 clients at most at the (close to $100 I think... I paid something like $129 a few yrs ago) non-server license level (Server licensing is much higher) So it can't