> PS: but something you *could* do in 8.0 is replace "cp" by "gzip" to > archive compressed files that way.
How about replacing the page image records with a same size dummy record that only contains a dummy header and all 0's. If the archiver cares about space he will use some sort of compression anyway. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings