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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.229.87.25!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!usenet From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dump and compression Date: 18 Mar 1997 14:49:34 GMT Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5gma1u$icd@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> References: <5glaem$io6$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37347 In article <5glaem$io6$2@kayrad.ziplink.net>, mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin) writes: > Am I right, and dump does not attempt to compress the data? Yep. > If so, why? Because dump dumps, gzip compresses ? > I can fit more on the same tape with tar/gzip, than > with dump (unless the drive has hardware compression in it)... Yep. But then, you're using two programs - one archiver and one compressor. > Thanks, > > -mi You probably want to either switch on hardware compression or use gzip with dump :) That's assuming that you have a problem with being able to fit more on the same tape with tar/gzip :) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !