On 10/07/2010 07:47 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I'm planning a Bacula setup with ZFS on the SDs (media being disk, not tape), > and I just wonder - should I use a smaller recordsize (aka largest block > size) than the default setting of 128kB? > > Also, last I tried, with ZFS on a test box, I enabled compression, the lzjb > algorithm (very lightwegith and quite decent compression). For 'normal' data, > I usually get 30%+ compression with this, but for the data backed up with > bacula, it didn't look that good, compression being down to 3-5%. Any idea > what might cause this?
If the data coming from bacula are already compressed by the bacula-fd there's little space for improvement. In your type of setup, I would disable compression on bacula-fd increasing the speed of backup, your sd doing it by zfs mechanism. > > Vennlige hilsener / Best regards > > roy > -- > Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk > (+47) 97542685 > r...@karlsbakk.net > http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ > -- > I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det > er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av > idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og > relevante synonymer på norsk. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports > standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. > Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great > experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Bruno Friedmann (irc:tigerfoot) Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member User www.ioda.net/r/osu Blog www.ioda.net/r/blog fsfe fellowship www.fsfe.org GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 vcard : http://it.ioda-net.ch/ioda-net.vcf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
