On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 06:24:10AM +0200, Christian Völker wrote:
> I remember having read about restoring single files from command line
> needs some BackupPC specific script or tricks to uncompress the files
> when using ocmpression for BackupPC.

I assume you mean using BackupPC_zcat.
 
> For a new instance I'm thinking of storing the files without compression
> to be able to easily restore them directly from command line if needed.
> 
> Is there anyone out here who has some experience about the average
> compression ratio in BackupPC? I know it depends on the type of data-
> most of them are office documents (Word and OpenOffice).

If you already have a working backuppc instance, look at the page for
any host.  The bottom table give you the compression ratios. I have
some hosts that routinely have 80% compression (database
backups). Others have 0-2% (data directories with most of the data
already compressed).

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                                -- rouilj

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