Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level

2007-12-05 Thread John Pettitt
Craig Barratt wrote: Rich writes: I don't think BackupPC will update the pool with the smaller file even though it knows the source was identical, and some tests I just did backing up /tmp seem to agree. Once compressed and copied into the pool, the file is not updated with future

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level

2007-12-05 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
John Pettitt wrote: What happens is the newly transfered file is compared against candidates in the pool with the same hash value and if one exists it's just linked, The new file is not compressed. It seems to me that if you want to change the compression in the pool the way to go

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level

2007-12-05 Thread John Pettitt
Rich Rauenzahn wrote: I know backuppc will sometimes need to re-transfer a file (for instance, if it is a 2nd copy in another location.) I assume it then re-compresses it on the re-transfer, as my understanding is the compression happens as the file is written to disk.(?) Would it

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level

2007-12-04 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to have an information about compression level. I'm still doing several tests about compression and I would like to have your opinion about something : I think that there is a very little difference between level 1 and level 9. I tought that

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level

2007-12-04 Thread Craig Barratt
Rich writes: I don't think BackupPC will update the pool with the smaller file even though it knows the source was identical, and some tests I just did backing up /tmp seem to agree. Once compressed and copied into the pool, the file is not updated with future higher compressed copies. Does

Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level

2007-12-04 Thread romain . pichard
PROTECTED] 05/12/2007 08:00 A Rich Rauenzahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Romain PICHARD/Mondeville/VIC/[EMAIL PROTECTED], backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Objet Re: [BackupPC-users] Compression level Rich writes: I don't think BackupPC will update the pool