I have been using this setup for awhile. You absolutely must disable Bacula
compression on the ZFS Devices within the SD or for the specific Pools that
have volumes on the ZFS. Doubling up encryption can actually increase file
sizes and also lead to data errors.

-Shon

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Bruno Friedmann <br...@ioda-net.ch> wrote:

> 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
> >
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