Backupping WebServer Logs/VM: zip or not zip?

[RedBlood]

Hi to All,
I've been using FreeNas for a quite, and I found it great, work like a charm, even if sometimes it could be a little painful to make it work fast.
But at last I've made it, expect for one thing:
I'm doing the backups of some webserver's logs, and the i'm doing a gzip of the files, before putting them on the Nas.
Even with the VM's backups I'm doing the same, gzipping them (action that takes lots of time) and then copy the file on the nas.

On the log's dataset, I've enable the gzip standard compression, while on the VM's dataset i've left the lz4 compression.
Now I would like to know:

• it's better do not compress the file by server side and compress only by Nas side?
• it's better do compress the file by server side, but not by Nas side?
• it's better to compress the file by server side and Nas side?

Thanks to all for every advise
Red

 

[dlavigne]

Did you decide upon an answer?

 

[RedBlood]

Hi,
I haven't received any answer, we're still storing them as gzip, but I'd like to know what's the best practice.