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On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? |
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> In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the subject |
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> line of this message. |
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> The skinny is, there's some really nice file compressors out there and I never |
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> heard of two of them... Anyone else know about LZMA or 7ZA? |
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> The two mentioned compression tools work pretty much like gzip. You tar up |
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> your files, pipe to the compression filter and then on to the target file. |
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> Below is a small example of what I've been seeing here at the shack. |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12359680 Aug 12 23:57 backup.tar |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3536665 Aug 13 00:01 backup.tar.7z |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4438465 Aug 13 00:08 backup.tar.bz2 |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4747637 Aug 13 00:03 backup.tar.gz |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2731412 Aug 13 00:10 backup.tar.lzma |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5125474 Aug 13 00:16 backup.tar.lzop |
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> What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo powered |
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> laptop. I've not bothered with timing the processes as the better compression |
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> rates are at the cost of speed and memory usage. Not good for "while you |
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> wait" processing, but just plain perfect for backups and what-have-you on |
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> servers... One side note, 7za does not record user/group info... |
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Are you saying it removes user/group info from the tar file? |
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> It's a shame |
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> too as this make it pretty much useless in most linux backup scenarios. This |
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> lzma creature is simply awesome. |
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> You can find it at: http://martinus.geekisp.com/rublog.cgi/Projects/LZMA |
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> Cheers all.... |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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