Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 11:09:21 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@leonardo.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Compress dumps? Message-ID: <199505010909.LAA14617@grumble.grondar.za>
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> Just a thought, but has anyone given any thought to running the > "dump" data stream through 'gzip' on its way to the tape, so that we > don't have to buy quite as many QIC-80 tapes? Sort of like the regular > CMS 'tape' program does under DOS/Windows? Yup. I have QIC 150's and 1.2GB of disk. I would not do it any other way. I do it by constructing a pipline, but if you have some other ideas I'll be interested! M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200
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