>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:35:44 -0500, Dan Langille said:
> 
> On Thu, January 20, 2011 10:35 am, Steve Thompson wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >
> >> This will never compress -- the "default" Options clause needs to the
> >> last
> >> one, but you have it as the first one.
> >
> > Yes, of course you are correct; thank you. And I've even read that in the
> > documentation. And moving the default Options clause to the end of the
> > Include does result in compression always being used. So all is well now.
> >
> > I guess I had better not wonder why I've always had it this way, and _was_
> > getting compresssion 50% of the time. Moving on...
> 
> I think you'll find it depends on what was backed up.  Reading this page:
> 
> http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001870000000000000000
> 
> "However, one additional point is that in the case that no match was
> found, Bacula will use the options found in the last Options resource. As
> a consequence, if you want a particular set of "default" options, you
> should put them in an Options resource after any other Options. "
> 
> Thus, sometimes your backup matched a previous Options clause, and
> sometimes it did not.

Clearly -- but the other options clause was an exclude in this fileset.  That
gives perfect compression :-)

__Martin

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