On 02/18/17 15:01, compdoc wrote:
> On 02/17/2017 10:18 AM, Norbert Gomes wrote:
> 
>> I read that LZO would be faster, but when I enable it (compression="LZO"
>> in the FileSet Include Options), no compression is applied
> 
> I use LZO to backup my jpeg images, that are stored on SSDs. I used to 
> use gzip2 for speed, and in the hopes it wouldn't damage the images as 
> much as higher levels of compression might.


This is a misconception.  No level of lossless compression will damage
the compressed data.  A *lossy* compression algorithm would, but Bacula
for obvious reasons does not use any lossy compression algorithms.  That
would defeat the entire point of making backups.


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