Bug 96130

Summary:	Need option to enable compression
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdat	Reporter:	Aaron Williams <aaronw>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alpha.super-one, bugs.kde.org, finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.0.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Aaron Williams 2005-01-01 22:28:39 UTC

Version:           2.0.1 (using KDE 3.3.2 Level "a" , SUSE 9.2 UNSUPPORTED)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.4 (pre 3.3.5 20040809)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.8-24.10-athlon-preempt

It would be really nice if there were an option to enable hardware compression for drives that support it.  Additionally, it would also be nice if software compression using gzip and/or bzip were supported with different compression levels.

For software compression it would be useful if it were dynamic, i.e. disabled for non-compressable file types (.gz, .bz2, .jpg, .png, .gif, .zip etc.) to speed up the backup process.  An old OS/2 backup program, BackAgain/2, supported dynamic compression, where it would turn it off if it couldn't keep up with the tape drive.

Comment 1 Aaron Williams 2005-01-01 22:36:22 UTC

I may try and add this if I get some time.

Comment 2 SN 2008-08-06 19:17:30 UTC

Compression options settings must accompanied by host, i.e. When accessing local networks or slow hosts, compression are disabled

Maybe kinda' cookie list or something

Comment 3 Aaron Williams 2008-08-08 02:09:42 UTC

I was thinking of monitoring a write buffer or something. If the write buffer going to the tape gets low, compression could be disabled.

Comment 4 BRULE Herman 2009-01-11 14:20:09 UTC

Btrfs will become the default fs in the future, it provide compression, that's should be good kde support it, like size, size one disk, and checkbox for compress it.

Comment 5 KDAT administrator for now 2009-01-12 05:44:27 UTC

Thank you for your suggestion. At this time, I am not able to maintain
kdat properly. If anyone else has an interest, I invite that person or persons to take over as administrator.

Comment 6 BRULE Herman 2009-01-12 18:49:04 UTC

Same for ntfs for KDE4.x under windows.

Comment 7 FiNeX 2009-08-26 15:33:22 UTC

Kdat is not developed and mantained anymore. All Kdat bugs are closed with the status "unmantained".