John Goerzen wrote: > First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It appears to > use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip or > unzip. It would seem that the few bytes that adding a gzip header > means would be well worth it, since it would buy the ability to > extract it without using specialized tools.
You can use the BackupPC_zcat binary to decompress individual files manually. > Secondly, I would love to be able to use bzip2 for the on-disk > compression of each backup. It appears that bzip2 can be used for > archives, but not the regular backups. Is this in the works anywhere? In my experience bzip2 is a much more resource intensive algorithm than gzip. I wouldn't want to use that on my backups, they'd take forever to compress. Nils Breunese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
