Re: [Bacula-users] Question about compressed backups

2007-11-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Shon Stephens wrote: > I'm a little concerned because of the fact that trying to compress an > already compressed file can take longer or even create a larger sized > file. Using GZIP will be a net loss if you are using most tape hardware (already has hardware compression) o

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about compressed backups

2007-11-13 Thread Shon Stephens
I'm a little concerned because of the fact that trying to compress an already compressed file can take longer or even create a larger sized file. -Shon On Nov 12, 2007 9:53 AM, Michael Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bacula has no way to determine whether or not a blob of data is > compresse

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about compressed backups

2007-11-12 Thread Michael Short
Bacula has no way to determine whether or not a blob of data is compressed. It simply grabs the data, compresses it, and streams it to the SD without performing any other time consuming checks. I wouldn't worry about it though, GZIP compresses and uncompresses pretty quickly with little to no over

[Bacula-users] Question about compressed backups

2007-11-12 Thread Shon Stephens
If I have a Fileset that defines "compression = GZIP" will Bacula ignore files that are already compressed? Thank you, Shon - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems?