Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1702 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> > Would it be better to use tar with the cpio?
> > find -d . -print0 | cpio --null -ova -H tar -F /backup/$host.$dat.tar
> > If that better, then could I use bzip to make it smaller?
>
> bzip, for much higher CPU utilization, creates only very marginally
> smaller archives.  I've found it is best just to stick with gzip.

It does depend A LOT on what you're archiving.  For logfiles, I started
using lzma a while back - it's slow in compressing, but does it
extremely well.  For general backup archives probably less so. 


/Per


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Per Jessen, Zürich (22.8°C)

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