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Matthias Meyer wrote:
> 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

Keep in mind two things:
1) As above, there is no compression on the network level
2) Only new files not already stored in the pool will be compressed on disk.

To see if it is working, just see if there are any files being added to
the cpool folder:
du -sm $TopDir/cpool

Regards,
Adam

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