I just found that if I just tar the backup that the tar file is slightly
larger than the resultant gzip file.
I was determining the that the file was larger by executing the gzip -l
command on the gzip file and it was coming back at about -324% compressed.
It must be an error with the reporting command.
Thanks
Mark
From: Mark Wass [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 15 April 2011 10:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Gzip File Grows!
Hi Guys
I use the BackupPC_tarCreate method for creating archived tar.gz files for
backup to removable media. However I'm having trouble with some of the files
actually growing in size once they are gzipped.
The one that are growing are backups of already compressed audio files.
Here is the command I use to create the archive
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate /usr/bin/split /usr/bin/par2
phone-calls -1 /bin/gzip .gz 0 /tmp 0 "*"
Is there any way I can prevent BackupPC_tarCreate from using gzip, i.e. just
create the tar file?
Thanks
Mark
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