After posting this, I substituted the 'xz' compressor for 'bzip2'. Ratio is 5.5-to-1 compared with 3-to-1 given by 'gzip'. It seems worthwhile to me. I feel that the catalog backup is something of a special case, but allow that others might not agree.
At 12:00 PM 1/3/2012 +0000, Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:14:38 -0500, starlight said: >> >> I made an adjustment that causes catalog backups >> to be 'bzip2' compressed. 'bacula.sql' compresses >> 75% and while I generally disklike compression for >> backups, this file is backed-up every day and >> eats quite a bit of disk space (50% of the typical >> total in our case). > >Is it significantly better than using compression = GZIP9 or LZO >in the >catalog backup fileset? > >__Martin > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-------------- >Write once. Port to many. >Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app >development. Create >new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. >Explore the >Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. >appdeveloper.intel.com/join >http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev >_______________________________________________ >Bacula-devel mailing list >Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
