From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 8:59:55 2002 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 712E037B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (mailout6-1.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E7543E86 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:59:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from met@uberstats.com) Received: from SURVIVAL (rrcs-nys-24-97-200-196.biz.rr.com [24.97.200.196]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id g7GFxgC10751 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:59:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "MET" To: Subject: Compression || Noobie Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:04:44 -0400 Message-ID: <002401c2453e$a86ba130$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 I've got ever growing databases that are just getting massive. I've already written a program (out of odd entertainment) that creates backups of the databases. It also manages the files to only keep a certain amount around in the directory. Anyways, I'm missing one KEY piece. How do I compress them? Naturally its got something to do with 'tar -c --file=file.tar file', but when I run that it does 'tar' the file, but does not compress the file one bit. Ideas? ~ Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message