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Re: [BackupPC-users] Questions about compression in BackupPC
2008-11-06 15:01:05
I doubt that the bzip2 compression would really change backup times all that much as they are much more I/O contrained than disk bandwidth or CPU bound. Many time you can see a backup using a small percentage of the CPU but pegging disk I/O. I'm sure it would have some effect but only a small one IMHO.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:03 PM, John Goerzen <jgoerzen AT complete DOT org> wrote:
Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>> Right, I'm aware of that. But that's a specialized tool. It requires
>> CPAN libraries, libraries from BackupPC's perl library, etc. 20 bytes
>> or so would get you something that gzip could uncompress.
>
> Are you sure? I thought it also works on its own. Haven't tried it
> though.
Yes, quite. I did test it.
>
> Well, maybe because it was never implemented and you're the first
> person to ask about it. :o)
Fair enough. My Perl skills are extremely rusty though.
-- John
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