On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, jstacey <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote: > I recently enabled encryption in my bacula-fd.conf with these entries: > > PKI Signatures = Yes > PKI Encryption = Yes > PKI Keypair = "/etc/bacula/client.pem" > PKI Master Key = "/etc/bacula/master.cert" > > The encryption works but now my LTO4 tapes can only store around 812MB > instead of the usual 1.2 -> 1.4 TB Is this normal? I might enable gzip > software compression but this is going to take a chunk out of my CPU. I read > that it is also possible to enable hardware encryption on the drive. Maybe > this method would allow me to keep using hardware compression? Thanks >
Perhaps the software encryption is not very compressible. Remember some encryption methods make your data look more random. And random data does not compress at all. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Presto, an open source distributed SQL query engine for big data, initially developed by Facebook, enables you to easily query your data on Hadoop in a more interactive manner. Teradata is also now providing full enterprise support for Presto. Download a free open source copy now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=250295911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
