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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Compressing hippos really fast
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305100528.GZ18407@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C87533F02DF@core-email.int.ascribe.com>

On Mar  4 18:35, Phil Betts wrote:
> I had this problem ages ago.  My solution was to run two backups.  
> One uncompressed including only files globbing *.gz, *.t[bg]z, *.[zZ], 
> *.bz2, *.zip etc, and one for the remainder which was piped 
> through gzip.

I guess that's the way to go in the long run.


Corinna

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04 18:35 Phil Betts
2008-03-04 18:57 ` Lee D. Rothstein
2008-03-05 10:05 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-04 15:43 Corinna Vinschen
2008-03-04 16:33 ` Dave Korn
2008-03-04 16:46   ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-03-04 16:35 ` Owen Rees
2008-03-04 16:45   ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-03-04 16:58     ` Dave Korn
2008-03-04 17:01     ` Igor Peshansky
2008-03-04 21:24     ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2008-03-05 10:03       ` Corinna Vinschen
2008-03-08 22:04         ` Robert Pendell

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