I doubt that the bzip2 compression would really change backup times all that
much as they are much more I/O contrained than disk bandwidth or CPU bound.
Many time you can see a backup using a small percentage of the CPU but
pegging disk I/O. I'm sure it would have some effect but only a small one
IMHO.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:03 PM, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> >> Right, I'm aware of that. But that's a specialized tool. It requires
> >> CPAN libraries, libraries from BackupPC's perl library, etc. 20 bytes
> >> or so would get you something that gzip could uncompress.
> >
> > Are you sure? I thought it also works on its own. Haven't tried it
> > though.
>
> Yes, quite. I did test it.
>
> >
> > Well, maybe because it was never implemented and you're the first
> > person to ask about it. :o)
>
> Fair enough. My Perl skills are extremely rusty though.
>
> -- John
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