[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ] > I'm able to compress with this: > > " tar -cpzvf " to appx. 2.7G > > but using Flexbackup with either gzip or bzip2 --> the best I can get (with > 9 compression level) is 4.8G > > This is the exact same dataset that I'm backing up. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Tried a couple tests real quick. I backed up the same tree using "tar zcvf" and then with flexbackup using tar + gzip @ default level 4 compression: (23)goliath[/tmp] ls -lh test-manual.tar.gz flexbackup/home-sues.0.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 513M Jul 12 19:50 test-manual.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 495M Jul 12 19:54 flexbackup/home-sues.0.tar.gz Approximately the same size. You didn't mention which version, if you are using tape/disk, etc... It has to be something specific to your situation -- doesn't seem to be something inherent in the way we are calling tar. You can run flexbackup with -n and then cut & paste the same flags to tar when you test manually perhaps. Did you check that its not something simple like your manual tar not getting all dot files/dirs? (which will happen if you use a command like "tar zcvf file.tar.gz *" rather than specifying the subdirectory from one level up) -- Edwin Huffstutler Linux - because reboots are for hardware changes [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key ID: AE782DC9 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ flexbackup-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
