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Hi all,

Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping =
process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after?

Does zipping the dumps cause any headaches at restore time?

(I currently dump 5 servers worth of data to a raid 5 array, and am =
about 20% away from running out of disk space).

Does gzipping a file give a decent compression ratio?

-Grant