Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:34:32 -0400 From: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Subject: Re: best archiver? Message-ID: <200903131534.33129.tabthorpe@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20090313191520.GA14233@thought.org> References: <20090313191520.GA14233@thought.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On March 13, 2009 03:15:24 pm Gary Kline wrote: > guys, this is for any compression experts on-list. my main desktop is > nearly full. i'm looking for the best means of compressing [mostly] audio > files. mp3, ogg, and .flag. i cross backup among my servers and would like > to have the most reasoned approach to compressing my ~/Music/ files. is > rar/unrar better that bzip -9? is there any new/forthcoming archiver on > the horizon? > > actually, i am looking to buy/build a dual or quad system with two 1.5TB > drives. but need help with that ... if anybody inn the seattle area can > come over and help me. for now, i just want to be as sure as possible that > my files are saved on at least two systems. > > thanks for any insights here. > > gary Try archivers/rzip, and when compressing pass -9 on command line. I have been using it for some time, very happily. Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabthorpe@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkm6tUkACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qCBPACeNgxqBEpEszQaXXWCTFpsBdFQ ueEAn36v36CU0oGChwCNXNT++ZWGqlW6 =6PpU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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