Articles tagged with "compression"
Should system backups be compressed?
Every now and then I make backups of my FreeBSD system’s filesystems with the venerable dump program. This is the only program that can capture all features of the UFS filesystem. The filesystems to be backed up are:
- The root filesystem.
- The /usr filesystem.
- The /var filesystem.
Note
My …
XZ compression
With the release of FreeBSD 8.1, the xz compression program has been imported into FreeBSD. I decided to do some testing to compare it to the bzip2 format. In this test I’ve used the standard non-multithreaded implementations of these compression programs.
Tests
First I compressed my procmail logfile …
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