Hi, On 11/1/2006 6:00 PM, Michael Brennen wrote: > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 05:43, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > >>>So... in my testing the combination of encryption and compression is >>>either not writing files correctly to tape (in which case there is a >>>lot of tape space taken up needlessly :) or the files are being >>>corrupted in the restore process; it appears to me to be the latter. >> >>This sounds like compression should be automatically disabled when >>encrypton is enabled. Should be useless anyway as encrypted data should >>no longer be compressible. > > > Not if compression happens prior to encryption. :)
Theoretically - yes, but I'm quite sure that encryption usually also compresses data. This is completely unverified and refers to encryption programs that are rather outdated by now, though... But I suppose you could inform us if encryption in Bacula also compresses :-) Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
