From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 28 19:45:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07B016AD96 for ; Sun, 28 May 2006 19:45:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from drone3.qsi.net.nz (drone3-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz [202.89.128.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C3943D4C for ; Sun, 28 May 2006 19:45:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: (qmail 24920 invoked by uid 0); 28 May 2006 19:45:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chen.org.nz) ([202.89.146.5]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 May 2006 19:45:07 -0000 Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D894E56435; Mon, 29 May 2006 07:45:06 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 07:45:06 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20060528194506.GB26614@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <18e02bd30605281044v3c18527du99af188526959dc1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Disk Compression X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 19:45:13 -0000 On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 5/28/06, Iantcho Vassilev wrote: > >I am not aware of this feature.. > > > > That's what I thought... What compression methods are there for *NIX? > I need to backup about 1.33TB of data to a 1TB array. You can always try tar+gzip or tar+bzip2. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone" - Al Capone