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Hi all,

I have a need to use a compression method other than gzip. For example, I have a backup that is approximately 13.5TB. Using compression=GZIP, its max speed is only about 1200Kb/s. This will not do. I have read on this list & on other links that bzip2, & xz/lzma are available. I would specifically like to try out xz/lzma. Every time I try to enter something other than GZIP after “compression=”, the director will not start because something is wrong with the way I’m entering it (or it’s not being accepted for whatever reason). I have yet to find any information online on the syntax for using bzip2, xz/lzma & whatever other compression methods are available. Are there any others that would be faster? I care more about speed than I do about total/final size, though that does matter. I have tried, for a test, “compression=bzip2” and it does not take. Please help! Thanks. =) - Steve

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:51:22 -0500
"Boutin, Stephen" <Stephen.Boutin < at > lightningsource.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I have a need to use a compression method other than gzip. For example, I have a backup that is approximately 13.5TB. Using compression=GZIP, its max speed is only about 1200Kb/s. This will not do. I have read on this list & on other links that bzip2, & xz/lzma are available. I would specifically like to try out xz/lzma. Every time I try to enter something other than GZIP after "compression=", the director will not start because something is wrong with the way I'm entering it (or it's not being accepted for whatever reason). I have yet to find any information online on the syntax for using bzip2, xz/lzma & whatever other compression methods are available. Are there any others that would be faster? I care more about speed than I do about total/final size, though that does matter. I have tried, for a test, "compression=bzip2" and it does not take. Please help! Thanks. =) - Steve

Hi,
the only other compression method supported (since bacula 5.2.x) is LZO. More details are available at http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_2_1.html#SECTION00610000000000000000

Regards.
--
Laurent Papier

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