In article <[email protected]>, Swift Griggs <[email protected]> wrote: > >I notice that the dump command in NetBSD doesn't feature the use of any >internal compression. If one compresses the dump file, then you can't use >it as the basis for a restore. > >Is that because the compression functions aren't in libc (ie.. they are >off in libz or liblzma) ? Perhaps it's just a matter of someone doing the >work ? It'd be a big help for admins who want to be able to use a modern >compression algorithm without having to uncompress the dump to use it. I >for one, would use it on all my systems. > >-Swift
Doesn't that work? zcat dump.gz | restore -f - christos
