Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:25:24 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Mit Rowe <mitayai@branchmedia.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dump - can it be compressed? Message-ID: <20011014162524.F309@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <DBEMKGPNFGOGJHLMDNDJMELEDAAA.mitayai@branchmedia.com>; from mitayai@branchmedia.com on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:49:41PM -0400 References: <DBEMKGPNFGOGJHLMDNDJMELEDAAA.mitayai@branchmedia.com>
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:49:41PM -0400, Mit Rowe wrote: > A quick question regarding 'dump'... can the output be compressed, and if > so, are there any issues to keep in mind? Yes, it can be compressed. Issues... You have to uncompress it before you use it in restore(8)? The CPU load for compression on a slow machine (using an old machine for something like backups is a fairly common practice) can sometimes be the rate limiting step. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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