On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:53 PM, John Drescher<dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S. > Santiago<sim...@magistrainfo.com.br> wrote: >> Hey co-workers, >> >> I wonder if it is possible improve the Bacula compression? >> I am using "compression = GZIP" but sometimes it compress only 15% of >> all volume. >> >> Note: My backup is FILE Type. >> > Try: > > compression=GZIP9 > > http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001470000000000000000 > > Note that this will take much longer to compress however.
mmmm.. GZIP9 no represent exactly best compression method.. I send one or two mail to list, about this theme and I ran various tests with distinct values to GZIP and basically this are the results: ************************************************ Reporte de hoy (con GZIP=5 y 140GB) ==================================================== Scheduled time: 17-Mar-2009 04:30:00 Start time: 17-Mar-2009 04:51:20 End time: 17-Mar-2009 05:44:24 Elapsed time: 53 mins 4 secs FD Bytes Written: 18,119,898,810 (18.11 GB) SD Bytes Written: 18,119,923,547 (18.11 GB) Rate: 5690.9 KB/s Software Compression: 87.9 % ==================================================== Reporte de ayer (con GZIP=6 y 140GB) ==================================================== Scheduled time: 16-Mar-2009 04:30:00 Start time: 16-Mar-2009 04:35:28 End time: 16-Mar-2009 05:55:55 Elapsed time: 1 hour 20 mins 27 secs FD Bytes Written: 17,570,761,480 (17.57 GB) SD Bytes Written: 17,570,786,217 (17.57 GB) Rate: 3640.1 KB/s Software Compression: 88.2 % ==================================================== Reporte del domingo pasado (con GZIP=9 y 145GB) ==================================================== Scheduled time: 08-Mar-2009 04:30:00 Start time: 08-Mar-2009 04:30:27 End time: 08-Mar-2009 08:34:00 Elapsed time: 4 hours 3 mins 33 secs Priority: 10 FD Bytes Written: 18,452,613,999 (18.45 GB) SD Bytes Written: 18,458,242,303 (18.45 GB) Rate: 1262.8 KB/s Software Compression: 88.1 % ==================================================== ************************************************ well.. as you can see, for me, the GZIP=6 (default) is the bester method...because is more faster and compress better that GZIP9. bye -- -- Victor Hugo dos Santos Linux Counter #224399 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
