Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Can I enable compression in the schedule resource?

2008-12-04 06:25:48
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Can I enable compression in the schedule resource?
From: "T. Horsnell" <tsh AT mrc-lmb.cam.ac DOT uk>
To: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de>, bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:21:39 +0000
Ralf Gross wrote:
> pedro moreno schrieb:
>>    Hi people.
>>
>>    I want to know if this is possible, I have 1 tape device where I
>> save my Full backups, my Differential backups goes to my hard disk,
>> when I run the Full backups, my compression is disable in order to use
>> my device HW compression, but my differential backups have the
>> compression enable, because I don't have to much space to save each
>> Diff backup, is all my problem.
>>
>>    To enable, I have to open the bacula-dir.conf fiel chage my
>> settings and done, reload the file, but I was wondering if I bacula
>> can handle this alone,?
>>
>>    Like in the same Schedule Resource to put compression=GZIP and with
>> this the job will run my :
>>
>> Run = Level = Differential Storage = File Pool = MueblexDiffFile
>> compression=GZIP tue-thu at 19:00
>>
>> compression=GZIP/off something like this.
>>
>>  Went this schedule run, will compress my files, that's all.
> 
> 
> This is not possible right now. I did send a feature request about
> this earlier this year.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.general/41299
> 
> But it seems to be lost, I can't find it in the current file where the
> feature requests are collected.
> 
> Ralf
> 
>

Does it slow your full backup down too much if you use GZIP for it as well,
instead of hardware compression?

Cheers,
Terry

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