On 5/11/06, Lee A. Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I noticed while monitoring backuppc that it doesn't seem to compress on the 
fly, is this
true?  I am backing up 40GB's worth of data on a server and as it is backing up 
I monitor
the disk space usage on the mount point and by looking at that information it 
doesn't
seem like compression is happening on the fly.

Does compression happen after the backup completes?

Whether or not compression is an option during the data transfer
depends on the transfer method. Currently, the only backup method
which supports compression over the network is ssh+rsync, and that
relies on ssh to do the compression. All others will send the data
over the network uncompressed.

Backuppc gets the data in uncompressed form, so it will compress the
data at that point if compression is enabled.

-Dave


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