On Wed, 4 May 2005, Leni Mayo wrote:
Incidentally, the reason I'd earlier seen good results by gzipping the volume
was because I'd built the static bacula fd in the absence of a static zlib!
Does lack of zlib matter in the face of a good tape drive with onboard
compression?
Martin Simmons wrote:
Maybe the free space on your disk contains old data, so that can't
be compressed too well (not sure why gzip would do better though)?
There might be some disk scrubbing tools that would fix this.
Thanks - a good suggestion. Defragmenting the disk does make the
compression mor
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:36:31 +1000, Leni Mayo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Leni> I'd like to image a windows desktop by booting into knoppix and using
Leni> bacula to backup the ntfs partitions. I thought this'd be a nice way
Leni> to do disaster recovery.
Leni> The trouble is that
Hi -
I'd like to image a windows desktop by booting into knoppix and using
bacula to backup the ntfs partitions. I thought this'd be a nice way
to do disaster recovery.
The trouble is that the desktop has a big hard disk, most of which is
empty.
Neither the sparse nor compression options seem
