On 01/20/2011 10:01 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> 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 (Oops, thanks - my reply was SUPPOSED to go to the list, not just to you personally...)
To follow up, I think I WILL try out BTRFS with compression (with client-side compression switched off) for some experimental backups and see how it does. Due to the way our backup system is set up (continuously growing, with volumes stored on external drives supplied by the offices who want to be on the backup system), the speed that the backups can be done is becoming an issue, but we don't have enough space to shut off compression and still have backups go back far enough. I have been (bravely|foolhardily) using BTRFS as my primary filesystem on my netbook, and on several other of my personal drives with no problems so far, and I'm confident it's at least stable enough to do serious experimentation with. Once I've got it running I'll report back on how it works. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
