Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-18 Thread Bruno Rogério Fernandes
Em 18/02/2022 07:33, Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users escreveu: On 17/2/2022 23:43, Bruno Rogério Fernandes wrote: Maybe I've got a solution Instead of modifying backuppc behavior, I'm planning to disable compression setting at the server and create a FUSE filesystem that transparently

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-18 Thread Adam Goryachev via BackupPC-users
On 17/2/2022 23:43, Bruno Rogério Fernandes wrote: Maybe I've got a solution Instead of modifying backuppc behavior, I'm planning to disable compression setting at the server and create a FUSE filesystem that transparently compresses all the images using jpeg-xl format and put backuppc pool

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-17 Thread Robert Trevellyan
I tend to agree. It sounds like an image library archive project, not a backup project. Robert Trevellyan On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 10:36 AM Greg Harris wrote: > Yet another sideline sitter here. However, here goes with a very > questionable thought. Maybe BackupPC is the wrong tool for this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-17 Thread Greg Harris
Yet another sideline sitter here. However, here goes with a very questionable thought. Maybe BackupPC is the wrong tool for this particular directory/instance? Perhaps something like Amazon Glacier with Cryptomator is a wiser choice in this one scenario? Thanks, Greg Harris On Feb 17,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-17 Thread backuppc
G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote at about 13:24:26 + on Thursday, February 17, 2022: > Hi there, > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, brogeriofernandes wrote: > > > I'm wondering if would be possible to run a command just after > > client transfers file data but before it's stored in

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-17 Thread backuppc
Bruno Rogério Fernandes wrote at about 09:43:13 -0300 on Thursday, February 17, 2022: > Maybe I've got a solution > > Instead of modifying backuppc behavior, I'm planning to disable > compression setting at the server and create a FUSE filesystem that > transparently compresses all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-17 Thread Paul Fox
"G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users" wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, brogeriofernandes wrote: > > > I'm wondering if would be possible to run a command just after > > client transfers file data but before it's stored in backuppc > > pool. My idea is to do an image compression, like jpeg-xl

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-17 Thread G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users
Hi there, On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, brogeriofernandes wrote: I'm wondering if would be possible to run a command just after client transfers file data but before it's stored in backuppc pool. My idea is to do an image compression, like jpeg-xl lossless, instead of the standard zlib one. Have you

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-17 Thread Bruno Rogério Fernandes
Maybe I've got a solution Instead of modifying backuppc behavior, I'm planning to disable compression setting at the server and create a FUSE filesystem that transparently compresses all the images using jpeg-xl format and put backuppc pool on top of that. The only problem I can think of is

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-16 Thread Guillermo Rozas
> > Unless I am missing something... > No, you're not missing anything. Effectively THIS is the hard part: > Even if you did somehow pre-compress files and pipe them onto the > client side rsync, you would probably break the ability for rsync to > tell changed files based on stat'ing the file

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-16 Thread backuppc
Guillermo Rozas wrote at about 22:37:09 -0300 on Wednesday, February 16, 2022: > > > > > Certainly, this would be more bandwidth-friendly if it was possible to > > > do this compression before transferring to server, but I can't figure > > > out how I could accomplish this. > > Presumably

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-16 Thread Guillermo Rozas
> > > Certainly, this would be more bandwidth-friendly if it was possible to > > do this compression before transferring to server, but I can't figure > > out how I could accomplish this. > Presumably harder as it would require host-side code to do things > such as running a patched host version

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-16 Thread brogeriofernandes
Thanks for answering Em qua, 2022-02-16 às 13:39 -0500, backu...@kosowsky.org escreveu: > brogeriofernan...@gmail.com wrote at about 15:21:10 -0300 on > Wednesday, February 16, 2022: >  > Hi everyone >  > >  > Currently, I'm using urbackup to backup a lot of image files and >  > thinking of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Run command per file before storing in the pool

2022-02-16 Thread backuppc
brogeriofernan...@gmail.com wrote at about 15:21:10 -0300 on Wednesday, February 16, 2022: > Hi everyone > > Currently, I'm using urbackup to backup a lot of image files and > thinking of migrating to backuppc. > > I'm wondering if would be possible to run a command just after client >