Re: [BackupPC-users] adjusting compression level

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

rom...@va... wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I installed BackupPC 3.0.0 on a Fedora Core 6 (server) in order to 
> back up Windows XP client.
> For your information, I use rsyncd.
>
> I'm checking and testing all differents compression levels to compare 
> them.
> The test is based on 3.00 Gb in full backupc. There are more than 400 
> files to back up.
>
> For the moment, I tested with the levels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and without 
> compression (i.e. 0) and the difference
> between the levels is very very small.
Are you just running a full backup over and over?   What's your 
methodology?  Doesn't the pool already have a previously compressed copy 
of the file and BackupPC therefore throws the new copy away since it is 
already in the pool?

Rich