Compressing unencrypted metafiles

Gavin Carr gavin at openfusion.com.au
Fri Feb 5 07:34:16 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 02:43:23PM +0000, Gavin Carr wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 03:17:52PM +0100, Kostas Chatzikokolakis wrote:
> > On 01/02/10 14:56, Gavin Carr wrote:
> > >On one of my backups - unencrypted, lots and lots of small files, over a
> > >high latency link - the storage of the metafile takes 20 minutes, which is
> > >up to 2/3 of the time of the whole backup. Gzipping the metafile reduces
> > >that to 3 minutes, and reduces the storage requirements on both the client
> > >and the server from 30M to 5M.

This is now committed, btw. Used iff IO::Compress::Gzip and friends are 
installed.

Cheers,
Gavin



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