> How good is the Archive Manager built into jaunty in > terms of its comparison to say Winzip?
It's equivalent. Archive Manager is essentially a front-end to a bunch of file compressors. bzip2 will give you plenty good enough compression. > I'm thinking more security than > compression though the better the compression the happier I am You can add passwords, if that's your thing. But something like gpg would probably do a better job. > What I'm trying to do is backup about 150Gb of stuff on my NAS to an > external HDD. Is your NAS the machine running Jaunty? If not, what you're trying to do will only slow things down. > Copying the data from one drive to another is quite slow The fastest way to do things is to get the source and target drives close together (in bus terms) - usually on the same southbridge if you're using PC-type architectures. Note that sharing a single PATA bus is a mistake, though - the bandwidth has to be shared between both drives. > So what I want is to compress the data (saving copying time) and > encrypt is at the same time. That is only going to work if you compress on the NAS; using an external machine means you have to run all the uncompressed data off the NAS, then run the compressed data back on. That would be a mistake. > And before anyone suggests I could speed this up - I'm constrained in that > my NAS is quite old and most of my network "infrastructure" is only 10Mb > so at best I'm getting about 780kBps transfer speeds. You might find it easier & quicker to move the HDD(s) out of the NAS. > Anyone been in this situation and found a sort of "Winzip" for Ubuntu that > goes a bit beyond Archive manager? I've used luks for that sort of thing before - I once mounted an encrypted file on a machine in Chicago onto my laptop on the Isle of Wight ferry, with encrypted communications all the way. But I was very bored that day... Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
