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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@lucent.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dump and compression
Date: 18 Mar 1997 17:19:27 +0100
Organization: Lucent Technologies, Indian Hill
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>> On 18 Mar 1997 14:49:34 GMT, brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian
>> Somers) said:
BS> You probably want to either switch on hardware compression or
BS> use gzip with dump :) That's assuming that you have a problem
BS> with being able to fit more on the same tape with tar/gzip :)
Yes, and I think he's not alone with that problem. When I create tapes
with tar I almost always use gzip to compress (-z flag to gnu TAR). It
would indeed be very useful if dump/restore could do the same.
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Peter Mutsaers Lucent Technologies, Network Systems
plm@lucent.com Huizen, the Netherlands