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On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote: |
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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 |
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> > subject line of this message. |
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> > The skinny is, there's some really nice file compressors out there and I |
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> > never 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 |
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> > up your files, pipe to the compression filter and then on to the target |
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> > file. Below is a small example of what I've been seeing here at the |
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> > 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 |
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> > powered laptop. I've not bothered with timing the processes as the better |
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> > compression rates are at the cost of speed and memory usage. Not good for |
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> > "while you wait" processing, but just plain perfect for backups and |
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> > what-have-you on servers... One side note, 7za does not record user/group |
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> > info... |
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> Are you saying it removes user/group info from the tar file? |
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Not "removed", it's never put there... :') |
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