>> This is normal. If you want fast compression do not use software
>> compression and use a tape drive with HW compression like LTO drives.
>>
>> John
> Not really an option for file/disk devices though.
>
> I've been tempted to experiment with BTRFS using LZO or standard zlib
> compression for storing the volumes and see how the performance compares
> to having bacula-fd do the compression before sending - I have a
> suspicion the former might be better..
>

Doing the compression at the filesystem level is an idea I have wanted
to try for several years. Hopefully one of the filesystems that
support this becomes stable soon.

John

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