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Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 17:01:13 -0500
From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
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Subject: Re: Disk Compression
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On Sun, 28 May 2006 13:15:17 -0500
"Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/28/06, Iantcho Vassilev <ianchov@gmail.com> 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.

If it is just backing up, tar works nicely.