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Hemant Shah wrote:
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> --- 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
>
> 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.
Unless you're not using a tape, which is why I compress in software. :)
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