Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull software compression

2013-03-25 10:18:51
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull software compression
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: azurIt <azurit AT pobox DOT sk>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:15:58 -0400
> Interesting idea but it will then do more compression than it's needed - for 
> example, Bacula needs to compress only new/modified files. In the way you 
> suggested, kernel will need to compress everything again with every 
> VirtualFull backup.
>

Most of the filesystems that compress do that on a block level. So it
will not recompress the entire disk volume when you append.

-- 
John M. Drescher

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