Re: [BackupPC-users] Questions about compression in BackupPC
2008-11-06 15:09:06
dan wrote:
> I doubt that the bzip2 compression would really change backup times all
> that much as they are much more I/O contrained than disk bandwidth or
> CPU bound. Many time you can see a backup using a small percentage of
> the CPU but pegging disk I/O. I'm sure it would have some effect but
> only a small one IMHO.
That may be true -- I don't really care about backup times (after all,
it runs while I sleep.) I care about backup *space*.
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