Hello Steve,
Le mercredi 18 novembre 2009 22:25:39, Steve Polyack a écrit :
> Attached is a patch against Bacula-3.0.3 to implement the feature
> request listed above. I'd been looking for a way to disable FD
> compression when FDs are writing to my LTO3 drive, which has hardware
> compression because it really does make a large difference in backup
> speed, even vs. GZIP1 (especially when combined with FD encryption).
>
> I've simply added another configuration option for any Storage {}
> resource in the Director's config. An admin may set AllowCompression=No
> for a particular storage resource, causing the director to prevent any
> GZIP compression options from being sent to the FD when a job is run
> against that particular storage resource. The default for the directive
> is Yes/true so that behavior is unchanged for anyone who does not choose
> to set it. There may be a better way to strip the compression flags
> from the fo->opts[] going out to the FD, but this works great and
> appears readable to me.
>
> Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated. I'd like to see the
> code added to a later version of Bacula.
We need to have a piece of documentation on this feature (New feature section,
simple use case and exact directive documentation). I can do the LaTeX format.
We need also a regression test that check with/without this option that we
have GZIP stream or not on the volume. (with bscan).
Bye
> Thanks,
> Steve Polyack
>
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