Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Compression for certain levels of backup...

2009-04-07 02:55:48
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Compression for certain levels of backup...
From: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:49:54 +0200
John Lockard schrieb:
> I can't see a way in 2.4.x, but maybe it's present in the
> 3.0.x code...  I would like to compress my Incremental backups,
> but not my Differential backups or Full backups.
> 
> I keep my incremental backups on disk.  They never transition
> to Tape.  My Differentials run weekly and I keep a week and a
> half of Differentials before they rotate to tape.  Fulls are
> run Monthly and rotate to tape 35 days after creation.
> 
> So, my Fulls and Differentials I don't want compressed because
> the Tape drive will eventually take care of that with hardware
> compression.  But since the Incrementals never hit tape I'd
> prefer to have them compressed.
> 
> Is there a way of doing this?

I creted a feature request for this early last year, but haven't heard
anything about it yet.

Feature request: enable/disable compression depending on storage
device (disk/tape)
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/41299/

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