Greetings!
I’m relatively new to Bacula, and am working on my
first deployment. I am working in a completely disk-based environment, so I
have a single director and SD which run on the same host, and a few Windows
test server clients which run FD’s.
Because it’s all disk based, I’m using
compression=gzip4 in my fileset directives. I have two questions regarding
compression:
1) What
is the percentage that is reported in the job statistics? Is that how well the
compression is doing, or how much CPU it took to do it? I’ve seen
references to both..
2) Is
there an easy way in bconsole to see what the actual size on disk of the job
was? All of the size numbers reported seem to be post-compression, which makes
sense since the compression happens on the host, but I’m assuming bacula
is storing ACTUAL size on disk info in the catalog somewhere.. I’d love
to quickly see how much REAL data I’m backing up, compared to how much
virtual tape space it’s taking..
Thanks!
Joseph Dickson
AJ Boggs
joseph.dickson AT ajboggs DOT com
