10 Sep
2009
10 Sep
'09
15:49
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 -- Per Jessen, Zürich (22.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org