On 12/16/2010 08:10 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:41:21 +0100, Bruno Friedmann said: >> >> Hi All, >> >> On a customer site, we need to "migrate" all the old sdlt tapes to disk base >> media. >> >> Everything is working actually between a temporary bacula-sd on which the >> sdlt tape is connected, >> and the disk based media. >> >> All work well with the usage of bcopy >> >> My question is about to get the new disk based media compressed, as actually >> we are ending with non compressed media >> >> I was thinking about the AllowCompression = yesno >> But this apply only in director storage definition, and is not used by bcopy >> (which mainly rely only on device) >> >> Any "guru" ideas, how to get a final compressed stream ? > > It is impossible, because compression is done in the bacula-fd. The copying > code (bcopy and Bacula's own copy/migration jobs) runs entirely without the > bacula-fd. > > You could look at using a compressing filesystem to hold the backups (e.g. zfs > or something based on fuse > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=CompressedFileSystems). > > __Martin
Thanks Martin for your confirmation. We will compress them with 7z and lzma2 ( so we get a high compression level, and multithreaded jobs ) -- Bruno Friedmann (irc:tigerfoot) Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member User www.ioda.net/r/osu Blog www.ioda.net/r/blog fsfe fellowship www.fsfe.org GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 vcard : http://it.ioda-net.ch/ioda-net.vcf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users