BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression Issue

2009-11-10 03:32:30
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression Issue
From: Matthias Meyer <matthias.meyer AT gmx DOT li>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:29:09 +0100
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

br
Matthias
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