Re: [BackupPC-users] Backing up one share uncompressed

[Rich R. <ri...@sh...>]

Mark Allison wrote:
> Thanks - I haven't tested this but I assumed that compression would be 
> much slower. As all the files are MP3s (already compressed), bzip2 is 
> unlikely to be able to compress it much further. I'm currently using a 
> setting of 5, bzip2.
>
> Thanks for the replies, I'll probably just leave the compression on.
>
> Mark.
> tp://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>   

Why not just add a  seperate backup for your mp3 directory (and exclude 
it from the main) with compression level 1 via gzip?  You can mix 
compression levels and if the file is found somewhere else, it will be 
found as a match.

I wonder which would be better?  explicitly excluding /media/mp3 and 
including it in another, or excluding *.jpg *.mp3 *.avi and including 
that in another?  Would make restores more complicated...

Rich