From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 1 02:09:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA18820 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 May 1995 02:09:56 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA18796 for ; Mon, 1 May 1995 02:09:35 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA04203; Mon, 1 May 1995 11:09:22 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA14617; Mon, 1 May 1995 11:09:21 +0200 Message-Id: <199505010909.LAA14617@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Mike O'Brien" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Compress dumps? Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 11:09:21 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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