On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Christian Völker <chrischan AT knebb DOT de> 
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I remember having read about restoring single files from command line
> needs some BackupPC specific script or tricks to uncompress the files
> when using ocmpression for BackupPC.
>
> For a new instance I'm thinking of storing the files without compression
> to be able to easily restore them directly from command line if needed.
>
> Is there anyone out here who has some experience about the average
> compression ratio in BackupPC? I know it depends on the type of data-
> most of them are office documents (Word and OpenOffice).
>
> Just share your experience,

I generally see pretty close to 50% on large sets of random files.  If
your office documents are older .doc format they will compress a lot,
but the newer .docx format is already zip-compressed and you won't
gain much if anything by compressing again.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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