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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dump and compression
Date: 24 Mar 1997 05:18:33 GMT
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Honorable Brian Somers
wrote on 18 Mar (in article <5gma1u$icd@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>):
>> 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 :)
Am I not loosing some of the dump/restore functionality by compressing
dump's output before putting it onto the tape? Why does not _everyone_
do that and why does "hardware compression" even exist?
Dump still does a lot of things, which could've been put onto
separate programs -- notifying operators, for example...
Thanks!
-mi
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