tarring a dump. Problems with a pipe
Parv
parv at pair.com
Thu Sep 8 10:18:38 PDT 2005
in message <njd5nj8rky.5nj at mail.opusnet.com>,
wrote Gary W. Swearingen thusly...
>
> I compressed a filesystem dump (on Athlon 64/3200+, i386 OS) and
>
> bzip2 compressed to 50% of 2 GB in 1118 sec
> gzip compressed to 52% of 2 GB in 306 sec
>
> But bzip2 can compress much better than that on some stuff.
>
> If your goal is a small backup, bzip compresses better.
> If your goal is a quick backup to disk, gzip is faster.
> If your goal is a quick backup to tape, bzip is faster
> because tape is so slow, unless your CPU can't keep up.
In this context, by "bzip" did you actually meant "bzip2"? (There
is a archivers/bzip port.)
- Parv
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