Basically accurate. I don’t use autoxflate because I do all client side compression, most of my clients are remote systems with slow upload I I am limited by bandwisth and not CPU. Also I backup some AWS machines to on prem, where you pay $0.10/GB egress but I have CPU to burn.
I then don’t bother decompressing on the server because it saves disk space for disk volumes, and even when I migrate to tape gzip tends to be better than tape compression. So I just leave it compressed from the client. What I don’t know is how it might interact with featuers I’m not using like the newer dedupe backend https://docs.bareos.org/DeveloperGuide/dedupable.html Compression I know can often get the way of solutions like that. Brock Palen [email protected] www.mlds-networks.com Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting > On Aug 7, 2025, at 5:49 PM, John Lockard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why/where would I choose to use autoxflate in bareos-sd.conf > and why/where would I choose to use compression in FileSet Options? > > Is it solely a matter of: > 1. I have a slow client system and I'm going to offload the compression to > the storage server and use the autoxflate in the storage daemon. > 2. I have a fast client system and I'm going to have the client compress the > data before sending it to the storage server. > > Thanks, > -John > > -- > - Adaptability -- Analytical --- Ideation ---- Input ----- Belief - > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > John M. Lockard | U of Michigan - School of Information > Unix Sys Admin | Suite 205 | 309 Maynard Street > [email protected] | Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2211 > www.umich.edu/~jlockard | 734-615-8776 | 734-763-9677 FAX > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > - The University of Michigan will never ask you for your password - > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "bareos-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/CAHDqrGf178Wmbm5ZoHJhLjFP9yde59VE%3DvZQk25rVHwojkyZbQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/2FE4E3AD-B258-4C25-A9BA-311B30748D9D%40mlds-networks.com.
