On Dec 10, 2003, at 11:32 PM, dave wrote:
I just got a new set of Mandrake 9.1 disks from CheapBytes, and I am
about to upgrade my Mandrake 9.0 system. I'd like to try and back up my
./home directory, but the only back-up device I own is a zip-drive.
What archiving format delivers the greatest compression? How small can
I compress, say a 1GB directory?
This depends on what the 1 GB is. Bzip2 is generally the best standard compression program.
One common technique is to dump all of it in /tmp on another machine (but *not* on a Solaris machine --
/tmp is usually a ram filesystem on Solaris.)
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