From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 16:25:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88AAF37B407 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.247.143.60.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.143.60]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9ENPPT09396; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:25:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9ENPOq01090; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:25:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:25:24 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Mit Rowe Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: dump - can it be compressed? Message-ID: <20011014162524.F309@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mitayai@branchmedia.com on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:49:41PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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