Re: [Bacula-users] bacula compression -- LTO4

2019-01-21 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hello, You might be interested in checking this thread: https://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/mailman/message/36386670/ A perl script is mentioned there: https://github.com/hreinecke/sg3_utils/issues/18 which can provide you with e.g. daily reports of raw space remaining on tapes. Thanks, Adam

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula compression -- LTO4

2019-01-21 Thread Tilman Schmidt
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 09:44, krashoverr...@free.fr wrote: > My client has 1.3 To to backup, i'm having an LTO4 drive, meaning 800Go > native, 1.6To compressed, so I've set my pool to have a Maximum Volume > Bytes to 1600G 800 GB is the real capacity of an LTO-4 cartridge. The 1,6 TB

[Bacula-users] bacula compression -- LTO4

2019-01-21 Thread krashoverride
Hey there! New question for you, about job compression (on tapes) I'm running Bacula 7.4.4 server, with a 5.2.6 client (and PG db) My client has 1.3 To to backup, i'm having an LTO4 drive, meaning 800Go native, 1.6To compressed, so I've set my pool to have a Maximum Volume Bytes to 1600G I've

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-06 Thread Carlo Filippetto
[--] Can you be a little more specific about don't worl?  What doesn't work?  Compression?  Backups? If you're not getting compression and you're asking about that, from the fragmentary bits of configuration you've posted above you appear to have compression both turned on and turned off.  

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-06 Thread Jorge Cabello
I'm currently using this Fileset in my windows servers and it's working fine (bacula v. 2.4.4). FileSet { Name = XXXFileset Enable VSS = yes Include { Options { signature = MD5 compression=GZIP

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:35:20PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 05/03/10 06:02, Carlo Filippetto wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I had installed bacula 5.0.1. on Winows client, and work fine, but I have no compression Software Compression: None while FileSet {

[Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Carlo Filippetto
Hi all, I have a problem, I had installed bacula 5.0.1. on Winows client, and work fine, but I have no compression Software Compression: None while FileSet { Name = FS-test-windows Enable VSS = yes Ignore FileSet Changes = no Include { File = C:/Programmi/Test Options {

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.5.2010 13:02, Carlo Filippetto wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I had installed bacula 5.0.1. on Winows client, and work fine, but I have no compression Software Compression: None while FileSet { Name = FS-test-windows Enable VSS = yes Ignore FileSet Changes = no

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/03/10 15:08, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 3.5.2010 13:02, Carlo Filippetto wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I had installed bacula 5.0.1. on Winows client, and work fine, but I have no compression Software Compression: None while FileSet { Name = FS-test-windows Enable VSS

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/03/10 06:02, Carlo Filippetto wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I had installed bacula 5.0.1. on Winows client, and work fine, but I have no compression Software Compression: None while FileSet { Name = FS-test-windows Enable VSS = yes Ignore FileSet Changes = no

[Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Gilberto Nunes
Hi folks... I need to know if the Compression flag on FileSet must be gzip or I can use another compress program... I want use bzip2 to compress my file, because I thing bzip2 is more efficient... Thanks for any help... Regards Gilberto Nunes Ferreira TI Selbetti Gestão de Documentos

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Anatoly Pugachev
On 10.02.2010 / 09:05:19 -0200, Gilberto Nunes wrote: Hi folks... I need to know if the Compression flag on FileSet must be gzip or I can use another compress program... I want use bzip2 to compress my file, because I thing bzip2 is more efficient... or even Parallel BZIP2, see

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/10/10 06:05, Gilberto Nunes wrote: Hi folks... I need to know if the Compression flag on FileSet must be gzip or I can use another compress program... I want use bzip2 to compress my file, because I thing bzip2 is more efficient... It is true that bzip2 is more efficient than gzip,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:05:19AM -0200, Gilberto Nunes wrote: (...) gzip or I can use another compress program... No. I want use bzip2 to compress my file, because I thing bzip2 is more efficient... Really? $ du -m /tmp/foo.iso 625 /tmp/foo.iso $ gzip -c /tmp/foo.iso

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Steve Polyack
On 2/10/2010 8:16 AM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: I want use bzip2 to compress my file, because I thing bzip2 is more efficient... Really? $ du -m /tmp/foo.iso 625 /tmp/foo.iso $ gzip -c/tmp/foo.iso | dd bs=64K/dev/null 0+34388 records in 0+34388 records

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Sean M Clark
On 2010Feb10 8:50 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 2/10/2010 8:16 AM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: I want use bzip2 to compress my file, because I thing bzip2 is more efficient... Really? [...] 255526 bytes less while six times slower.. This is extremely dependent on the contents of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Steve Polyack
On 2/10/2010 10:36 AM, Sean M Clark wrote: On 2010Feb10 8:50 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: On 2/10/2010 8:16 AM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: I want use bzip2 to compress my file, because I thing bzip2 is more efficient... Really? [...] 255526 bytes less while

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread John Doe
From: Sean M Clark smcl...@tamu.edu xz/lzma is another consideration. At moderate compression levels, lzma seems to be about the same or slightly faster than bzip2 with a little better compression. At lower compression levels it seems like it's about as fast as gzip while compressing

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other than GZIP {xz/lzma]

2010-02-10 Thread Sean M Clark
On 2010Feb10 10:31 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Sean M Clark smcl...@tamu.edu xz/lzma is another consideration. At moderate compression levels, lzma seems to be about the same or slightly faster than bzip2 with a little better compression. At lower compression levels it seems like it's about

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/10/10 10:36, Sean M Clark wrote: xz/lzma is another consideration. At moderate compression levels, lzma seems to be about the same or slightly faster than bzip2 with a little better compression. At lower compression levels it seems like it's about as fast as gzip while compressing

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:54:35 +0100, Gavin McCullagh said: Hi, On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Another useful feature might be a wildcard excludefromcompression directive so you could say: This might avoid wasting time trying to compress the unccompressible while

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Simone S. Santiago
Thank you, John. best rds, Simone John Drescher escreveu: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S. Santiagosim...@magistrainfo.com.br wrote: Hey co-workers, I wonder if it is possible improve the Bacula compression? I am using "compression = GZIP" but sometimes it compress

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:53 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S. Santiagosim...@magistrainfo.com.br wrote: Hey co-workers, I wonder if it is possible improve the Bacula compression? I am using compression = GZIP but sometimes it compress

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Gavin McCullaghgavin.mccull...@gcd.ie wrote: Hi, [...] Another useful feature might be a wildcard excludefromcompression directive so you could say:        excludefromcompression {                pattern = *.zip                pattern = *.gz              

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:53 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:53 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S. Santiagosim...@magistrainfo.com.br wrote: Hey co-workers, I wonder if it is possible

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: [...] You are not using the same exact dataset (145GB versus 140GB source data ) in both tests so its meaningless that GZIP6 is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: [...] You are not using the same exact dataset

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-19 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Some time ago, I've made some tests on a customer site. They have plenty data that could be compressed ( a 75% ratio ) With GZIP ( which is equal to gzip default level 6 ) we loose hours of compression to obtain finally only a 78% ratio

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-19 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Some time ago, I've made some tests on a customer site. They have plenty data that could be compressed ( a 75% ratio ) With GZIP ( which is equal to gzip default level 6 ) we loose hours of compression to obtain

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-19 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Most of the data are compressible ( exchange server storage, and Navision Database ) at a 75% rate with gzip2 we have 78% with gzip6 but it double easyly the time need to obtain it. So sometime it doesn't help to try to do big compression.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-18 Thread Bruno Friedmann
John Drescher wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S. Santiagosim...@magistrainfo.com.br wrote: Hey co-workers, I wonder if it is possible improve the Bacula compression? I am using compression = GZIP but sometimes it compress only 15% of all volume. Note: My backup is FILE

[Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-17 Thread Simone S. Santiago
Hey co-workers, I wonder if it is possible improve the Bacula compression? I am using compression = GZIP but sometimes it compress only 15% of all volume. Note: My backup is FILE Type. Best Regards, Simone -- Enter

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2007-12-27 Thread Diego Roccia
Oh yes, it would be nice.. Ok, so you're telling me that I need to patch the code myself in order to make other compression methods working? The problem is that this network is composed of SOME HUNDREDS of server with different distributions (redhat, fedora, debian) so I wish I could found

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2007-12-27 Thread Michael Short
Compression is handled by the FD, so you will find all the related compression code there. However, you will also need to patch the DIR and the SD to recognize the new compression. I was looking into this before, and I probably will again, but the compression code isn't really simple so adding a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2007-12-26 Thread Vladimir Doisan
The compression project was abandoned, but in theory it should not be hard to create. GZIP is OK, but there are better things out there now like rk, rar and 7z Diego Roccia wrote: Hi all, a question: is there a way to implement other compression methods (like lzo) in bacula? I found an old

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2007-12-26 Thread Michael Short
I think that LZMA would definitely be a nice addition to bacula (which is used by the 7z format) to compress the data. -Michael - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2007-12-26 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Diego Roccia wrote: Hi all, a question: is there a way to implement other compression methods (like lzo) in bacula? I found an old patch for bacula 1.3.something are there any news about this? thanks in advance Diego One thing that should be a big big advantage would be to have

[Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2007-12-21 Thread Diego Roccia
Hi all, a question: is there a way to implement other compression methods (like lzo) in bacula? I found an old patch for bacula 1.3.something are there any news about this? thanks in advance Diego - This SF.net email is

[Bacula-users] Bacula compression problem and mutli-tapes troubles

2005-11-09 Thread Greg
Hi everybody, I got 2 problems with my bacula configuration : I got 41,xxx,xxx kbytes of data to backup (got this number with estimate command in bacula console), but when a full backup has finished It take 2 tapes with 38,xxx,xxx kbytes on one tape and 22,xxx,xxx in the other. I precise