On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, John Drescher wrote:

> I would say this is a combination of filesystem performance ( remember
> that when you backup there can be a lot of seeks that reduce
> performance) and decompression performance. Decompression is less CPU
> intensive than compression.

Ah yes, you're right. A gunzip on some test files is indeed 4-5 times 
faster than a gzip on the same data. I never noticed that big a difference 
before.

Steve

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