On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Timothy J Massey <tmas...@obscorp.com>wrote:
> Personally, I feel that compression has no place in backups. Back when we
> were highly limited in capacity by terrible analog devices (i.e. tape!) I
> used it from necessity. Now, I just throw bigger hard drives at it and am
> thankful. :)
>
No, it makes perfect sense for backuppc where the point is to keep as much
history as possible online in a given space. If you have trouble with
compression, just throw a faster CPU at it. Just anecdotally, I saw 95%
compression recently on a system where someone requested including their web
content directory and forgot to mention the 40Gb of log files that happened
to be there.
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