--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk> wrote:

> From: Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How much space does Bacula need?
> To: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 6:00 AM
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, John Drescher wrote:
> 
> > > Here is what bacula-web says:
> > >
> > > Total clients:           46      Total bytes
> stored:     17.51 TB
> > > Total files:    4672387         Database size: 
> 20.28 GB
> > >
> >
> > One thing I should have included which is on the lines
> of what Ryan
> > mentioned about compression. My 20.28GB database
> compresses to 1.75GB
> 
> Do you compress before writing to tape or do you let the
> tape drive do
> that?
> 
> AB
> 
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You should always let the tape drive do the compression, the hardware 
compression on tape will be faster then software compression done by the 
client. Your backups will be faster too.


Hemant Shah
E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com


      

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