Compressed Backups?

[mato]

Hi

I'm currently backing up my media using Cobian Backup 11...what's the implication of compressing the Backup? Is there any increased potential for errors/loss of quality/problems? If it saves space it seems sensible, as the backup would only be used in the event of a HDD failure and wouldn't need to be immediately usable?

Also would there be any disadvantage to using the Windows option "Compress this drive to save disk space"?

Thanks

 

[rpstewart]

There shouldn't be any potential for loss/errors in the backup per se but you've got no guarantee that the backup could be read by anything other than the original software.

If it's media (ie music & video) that you're backing up then the source data will be compressed anyway so the benefit of compression in either the backup or within Windows would be minimal.

 

[mato]

There shouldn't be any potential for loss/errors in the backup per se but you've got no guarantee that the backup could be read by anything other than the original software.

If it's media (ie music & video) that you're backing up then the source data will be compressed anyway so the benefit of compression in either the backup or within Windows would be minimal.

Ah ok - yes it's mainly video I'm backing up so in that case sounds like it's not worth the hassle if no big gains to be made. Cheers for the response.