Re: Compressing Datafiles

From: Brian Peasland <peasland_at_edcmail.cr.usgs.gov>
Date: 2000/04/12
Message-ID: <38F47550.CDE4878A@edcmail.cr.usgs.gov>#1/1

> I was just at the Backup and Recovery class last week and the instructor
> said this wasn't a good idea. The reasoning seemed a little fuzzy to
> me. I have a testbed so I just tried the following:

I'm not sure why they told you that you can't compress a backup file. We do it all the time, especially for hot backups. Utilities like GZIP (and GUNZIP) have been tested in the field and put through their paces. Also, if you are exporting a system that's going to create an export file larger than 2GBytes, then on many Unix systems you pipe the export directly to a compress utility.

HTH,
Brian

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Received on Wed Apr 12 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT