autoxflate in bareos-sd.conf vs compression in FileSet options???

[John Lockard]

Why/where would I choose to use autoxflate in bareos-sd.conf

and why/where would I choose to use compression in FileSet Options?

Is it solely a matter of:

1. I have a slow client system and I'm going to offload the compression to the storage server and use the autoxflate in the storage daemon.

2. I have a fast client system and I'm going to have the client compress the data before sending it to the storage server.

Thanks,

-John

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[Brock Palen]

Basically accurate.

I don’t use autoxflate because I do all client side compression, most of my clients are remote systems with slow upload I I am limited by bandwisth and not CPU.
Also I backup some AWS machines to on prem, where you pay $0.10/GB egress but I have CPU to burn.

I then don’t bother decompressing on the server because it saves disk space for disk volumes, and even when I migrate to tape gzip tends to be better than tape compression. So I just leave it compressed from the client.

What I don’t know is how it might interact with featuers I’m not using like the newer dedupe backend https://docs.bareos.org/DeveloperGuide/dedupable.html
Compression I know can often get the way of solutions like that.




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