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Title: flexbackup
Post by: Marco Garza on July 07, 2003, 09:38:54 AM

Hi all,

Just installed a ide tape backup.  It is a 10gb/20gb drive.  The only way I can get the server to have a good backup is to have less then 10gb of data on it.  Does flexbackup compress the data?  If not, is there a contrib to add compression?

TIA

Title: Re: flexbackup
Post by: Charlie Brady on July 07, 2003, 08:00:06 PM

Marco Garza wrote:

>  Does flexbackup compress the data?

Yes.

Charlie

Title: Re: flexbackup
Post by: Marco Garza on July 07, 2003, 08:24:33 PM

Charlie,

Any idea why I cant have more than 10gb of data of the backup errors out??

Using Seagate STT22000A Tape drive.

TIA

Title: Re: flexbackup
Post by: jb on July 07, 2003, 10:09:47 PM

Marco,

This is a line from my flexbackup.conf

$nocompress_types = 'mp3 Z z gz gif zip lha jpeg jpg taz tgz deb rpm bz2';

The above file extensions will not be compresses (or futher compressed).

Are you backing up a lot of these types of files?

JB

Title: Re: flexbackup
Post by: Kelvin on July 09, 2003, 04:37:35 AM

Marco,

It might help if you posted the error messages.

Kelvin