Re: [bareos-users] Compression and Encryption on bareos Clients

2019-09-24 Thread Spadajspadaj
Firstly, it's perfectly normal that hardware compression rate drops when dealing with encrypted data. Compression ratio depends heavily on entropy of input data and good encryption assures uniform distribution of encrypted data so there's no point in compressing data _after_ encryption. Secon

[bareos-users] Compression and Encryption on bareos Clients

2019-09-23 Thread Steffen Knauf
Hello, we enabled encryption on the clients. Hardware compression is enabled, too. By activating encryption the compression Rate is nearly fallen to 2-5% (from 50%). I plan to enable compression on the bareos Clients and disable Harware compression. Can someone confirm that encryption is done afte