>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:35:44 -0500, Dan Langille said: > > On Thu, January 20, 2011 10:35 am, Steve Thompson wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote: > > > >> This will never compress -- the "default" Options clause needs to the > >> last > >> one, but you have it as the first one. > > > > Yes, of course you are correct; thank you. And I've even read that in the > > documentation. And moving the default Options clause to the end of the > > Include does result in compression always being used. So all is well now. > > > > I guess I had better not wonder why I've always had it this way, and _was_ > > getting compresssion 50% of the time. Moving on... > > I think you'll find it depends on what was backed up. Reading this page: > > http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001870000000000000000 > > "However, one additional point is that in the case that no match was > found, Bacula will use the options found in the last Options resource. As > a consequence, if you want a particular set of "default" options, you > should put them in an Options resource after any other Options. " > > Thus, sometimes your backup matched a previous Options clause, and > sometimes it did not.
Clearly -- but the other options clause was an exclude in this fileset. That gives perfect compression :-) __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
