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.
I may try and add this if I get some time.
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
I was thinking of monitoring a write buffer or something. If the write buffer going to the tape gets low, compression could be disabled.
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.
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.
Same for ntfs for KDE4.x under windows.
Kdat is not developed and mantained anymore. All Kdat bugs are closed with the status "unmantained".