--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Chad Netzer <chad.netzer AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> From: Chad Netzer <chad.netzer AT gmail DOT com>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How much space does Bacula need?
> To: "Ryan Novosielski" <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 6:46 PM
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Novosielski
> <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu> wrote:
> > Hemant Shah wrote:
> >>
> >> 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. :)
> 
> Or if you are using bacula to encrypt the data on each
> client before
> sending it to the storage daemon.  Tape compression is
> practically
> useless for already encrypted data.

Why would it be useless for encrypted data? It is not compressed unless you 
encrypt and compress on client.


> 
> Chad
> 
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