>> >> What about when you are encrypting? You have to do the compression in >> Bacula as once you've encrypted the data it can no longer be compressed >> by the drive (eg for LTO < LTO4 where the drive cannot encrypt.) > > Encryption programs generally compress as well in order to increase > entropy - so any external compression routines will just make things > slower for no gain. >
Thanks Alan, I am specifically addressing the encryption support within Bacula: http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Data_Encryption.html Does this pre-compress the data, thus rendering the separate compression redundant? If so, it would be great and probably save us loads of time (about 1 week to back up about 18TB). Cheers Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
