Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull software compression

2013-03-25 10:06:00
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull software compression
From: "azurIt" <azurit AT pobox DOT sk>
To: "bacula-users" <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:03:01 +0100
>> Thank you, this will be the case as i'm *never* doing Full backups (it takes 
>> ages to complete). Is there a way how to compress already backuped files in 
>> volumes?
>
>Store the volumes on a filesystem that compresses like btrfs.
>


Interesting idea but it will then do more compression than it's needed - for 
example, Bacula needs to compress only new/modified files. In the way you 
suggested, kernel will need to compress everything again with every VirtualFull 
backup.

azur

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