[Box Backup] Compression during transport?

David Anderson boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:17:08 +0100


Thanks Stefan.

David

On Thursday 07 September 2006 15:02, Stefan Norlin wrote:
> > Does boxbackup compress "on the wire" as well as on disk? I ask, because
> > I need to evaluate the likely bandwidth cost of an initial "sync" of a
> > machine
> > with many Gb of data.
>
> Compression is done on the client side before transfer.
>
> You will find an entry in the log (client side) looking like this:
>
> Sep  6 02:12:24 webster2 bbackupd[2767]: File statistics: total file size
> uploaded 384737508, bytes already on server 168098559, encoded size
> 98437347
>
> So, around 98 MB was transfered in this case
> (after selecting, encrypting/compressing the data).
>
> Stefan
>
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