On 01.07.2010 / 10:05:06 -0400, Derek Harkness wrote:
> I've seen a very significant slow in backup speed by enabling gzip compress, 
> 32MB/s (without gzip) vs 4MB/s  (with gzip).  The server I'm backing up has 
> lots of CPU 24x2.6ghz so the compression time shouldn't be a huge factor.  Is 
> this normal for bacula or is there an optimization I'm missing.

you can probably make it a bit faster by specifying gzip compression
level, like "compression=GZIP3" and make your FileSet more picky about
what to compress and what not, please see "fileset examples" in docs.

> Oh, I'm on Bacula 5.0.2 for both the client and server and this is a disk to 
> disk backup.

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