Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > Is there any reason that backuppc doesn't allow for files of certain > type or ending to have compression skipped? > > It seems like it would be beneficial to define lists based either on > file endings and/or file types that would allow you to skip > compression for certain already compressed media types. It's not clear > to me what the benefit is of compressing large music, picture or video > files that are already pretty efficiently compressed. Adding a > compression can only slow down the transfer. > > Since there is already a pool and a cpool couldn't this be easily > added? > I asked about this a while back. It's not implemented, but yes I think it would be a great addition. Gzip'ing an already compressed file format like a jpg or an ogg doesn't gain you anything.
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