Perhaps you could NFS mount the mail server's disk on the bacula server, then use the local backup server's fd to back it up with compression.
j On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Vadim A. Umanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Здравствуйте, bacula-users. > > > > Dear colleagues, an advice needed. > > > > I've got a mail server, the BackUp solution is Bacula 1.38.9. > > > > I've got a lot of data on Accounts disk slice, and the mail server's > > CPU is not too strong (UltraSPARC II 450 MHz) and Full backup takes > > 3-4 times more when GZip option is on than when it's off. It seems to > > me that sending more data to network is easier for the server than > > compressing them and then sending less data. > > > > But the mail server data can be compressed approx. 50% and I wouldn't > > like to spend unneeded space ... Full backup would take about 80-90 GB > > of raw data. > > > > Can I configure backup so that data compression would be performed by > > Bacula server (CPU is quite strong and quite little loaded) and NOT by > > Bacula client? > > > > Please give me an advice! > > Current versions of Bacula don't support this. I don't know whether or > not the upcoming release does or not. > > Have you tried using GZIP1 instead of GZIP? In my own experiments, I've > noticed that GZIP1 uses noticeably less CPU than GZIP (which is actually > GZIP6) and still accomplishes good compression. > > -- > Bill Moran > Collaborative Fusion Inc. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > !DSPAM:4512940c690454195516837! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
