Bacula 5.0.2, CentOS 5.5, x86_64.
Recently noticed a few "Software Compression: None" reports lately,
affecting about 10% of my backup jobs, both large and small. Software
compression is most definitely turned on. What is this telling me?
Steve
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Bacula 5.0.2, CentOS 5.5, x86_64.
I reported this back in November, to no comment. I have a lot of full
backups that are reporting "Software Compression: None". Software
compression is most definitely turned on. For example, all of my fileset
definitions begin in a similar fashion to:
FileSet
On 1/18/2011 4:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
>
> Bacula 5.0.2, CentOS 5.5, x86_64.
>
> I reported this back in November, to no comment. I have a lot of full
> backups that are reporting "Software Compression: None". Software
> compression is most definitely turned on. For example, all of my fileset
The use of AllowCompression=No on storage definition can override
compression option on fileset.
Kleber
2011/1/18 Dan Langille
> On 1/18/2011 4:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
> >
> > Bacula 5.0.2, CentOS 5.5, x86_64.
> >
> > I reported this back in November, to no comment. I have a lot of full
>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 1/18/2011 4:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
>> > Whether software compression happens or not seems to be random. Anyone
>> know why this is happening?
>
> There was a discussion this week about this. Add Signature to your options.
I will certainly try t
On 1/19/2011 9:47 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Dan Langille wrote:
>
>> On 1/18/2011 4:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
Whether software compression happens or not seems to be random. Anyone
>>> know why this is happening?
>>
>> There was a discussion this week about this. Add
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:47:32 -0500 (EST), Steve Thompson said:
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Dan Langille wrote:
>
> > On 1/18/2011 4:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
> >> > Whether software compression happens or not seems to be random. Anyone
> >> know why this is happening?
> >
> > There was a di
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote:
> It reports "None" if there were no files in the backup or if the compression
> saved less than 0.5%, so it doesn't necessarily mean that it wasn't attempted.
I understand that, but I have several file sets that, for a full backup
level, sometimes give
On 1/20/2011 7:24 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote:
>
>> It reports "None" if there were no files in the backup or if the compression
>> saved less than 0.5%, so it doesn't necessarily mean that it wasn't
>> attempted.
>
> I understand that, but I have several
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 1/20/2011 7:24 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>
>>> It reports "None" if there were no files in the backup or if the
>>> compression
>>> saved less than 0.5%, so it doesn't necessarily mean that it wasn't
>>
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Dan Langille wrote:
> Time for new eyes. Post the job emails.
One full backup completed. Here are the relevant definitions:
Job {
Name = "bear_data15"
JobDefs = "defjob"
Pool = Pool_bear_data15
Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/bear_data15.bsr"
Client = bear
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:53:54 -0500 (EST), Steve Thompson said:
>
> FileSet {
>Name = "bear_data15"
>Include {
> Options {
>compression = GZIP
>signature = MD5
>sparse = yes
>noatime = yes
> }
> Options {
>exclude = yes
>w
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote:
> This will never compress -- the "default" Options clause needs to the last
> one, but you have it as the first one.
Yes, of course you are correct; thank you. And I've even read that in the
documentation. And moving the default Options clause to the e
On Thu, January 20, 2011 10:35 am, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote:
>
>> This will never compress -- the "default" Options clause needs to the
>> last
>> one, but you have it as the first one.
>
> Yes, of course you are correct; thank you. And I've even read that
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On 01/20/2011 12:35 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
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> On Thu, January 20, 2011 10:35 am, Steve Thompson wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>
>>> This will never compress -- the "default" Options clause needs to the
>>> last
>>> one, but y
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:35:44 -0500, Dan Langille said:
>
> On Thu, January 20, 2011 10:35 am, Steve Thompson wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >
> >> This will never compress -- the "default" Options clause needs to the
> >> last
> >> one, but you have it as the first o
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