Dear MK,
your answer was very helpful. Now I do understand that compression works
(at my site) and how to verify.
No questions left (issue resolved).
Martin
Am Dienstag, 21. Januar 2020 14:34:34 UTC+1 schrieb Udo Ullrich:
>
> Dear group, dear development team,
>
> thank you for helping others with this very amazing piece of software!
>
>
>
> Running the community version (18.2.5), entirely on Linux System (Client,
> too).
>
> I want to conserve disk space, because of that I would like to use file
> compression, however, no matter which algorithm I choose from (LZ4, GZIP,
> ...) the volume size does
>
> not differ. Now I suspect that there is no file compression at all. How
> can I find out, whether, the file backup is done with compression? Are
> there any logs telling this?
>
> In bconsole I do not get any error messages, the backup Jobs work very
> fine (result OK).
>
> What is the usual effect (ratio, e. g. using gzip) when using file
> compression?
>
>
> For clarification this is the configuration file:
>
>
> ---------------------
>
> FileSet {
> Name = "BackupRoot"
> Description = "Backup all regular filesystems"
> Include {
> Options {
> signature = MD5
> fstype = ext4
> compression = gzip
> }
> File = /
> }
> Exclude {
> File = /var/lib/bareos
> File = /var/lib/bareos/storage
> File = /tmp
> File = /var/tmp
> }
> }
>
> ---------------------
>
>
> Could it be that the option "compression" is ignored? Could it be there is
> a syntax error? I am puzzled, in the documentation I see the options with
> and without capital letters, all in capital letter, and again with no
> capital letters, with spaces and with quotation, e. g. compression,
> Compression, gzip, GZIP, compression=gzip, compression = gzip, etc.
>
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Udo Ullrich
>
>
>
>
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