Re: Bachups by Cron, Tape by Ftape

[Christian Brandt]

Charlie & wrote:

> It also gives very good compression (much better than gzip), but uses a lot
> of CPU so this is not useful for running a fast tape at full speed.
> (I get 66% of a P2-450 used writing to a QIC-250 that does 80K/s.)

 Well, only part ontopic, but if it is about effiziency, try szip
(slower than bzip2) and ppmz (incredible slow and efficient) - visit
http://act.by.net/ and be stunned by ppmz reducing the same source.tar
to a third in comparision with gzip.

Gruss,
    Christian