> 
> 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.
> 

Can you confirm that the backup actually takes 8 times longer with
compression enabled and that you aren't just seeing a measurement
anomaly with compressed vs uncompressed data?

James

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