Re: [BackupPC-users] Questions about compression in BackupPC
2008-11-05 17:09:53
John Goerzen wrote:
> First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It appears to
> use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip or
> unzip. It would seem that the few bytes that adding a gzip header
> means would be well worth it, since it would buy the ability to
> extract it without using specialized tools.
You can use the BackupPC_zcat binary to decompress individual files
manually.
> Secondly, I would love to be able to use bzip2 for the on-disk
> compression of each backup. It appears that bzip2 can be used for
> archives, but not the regular backups. Is this in the works anywhere?
In my experience bzip2 is a much more resource intensive algorithm
than gzip. I wouldn't want to use that on my backups, they'd take
forever to compress.
Nils Breunese.
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