Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:32:50 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: MET <met@uberstats.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compression || Noobie Message-ID: <20020816163250.GH389@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <002401c2453e$a86ba130$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> References: <002401c2453e$a86ba130$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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> From: "MET" <met@uberstats.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Compression || Noobie
> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:04:44 -0400
>
> 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.
tar does not compress. if you want to compress individual files, use
% bzip2 -k foo
if you want to compress multiple files (or a directory) in one
archive, use
% tar cjf archive.tar.bz2 foo [bar baz]
decompression is done by one of these:
% bzip2 -dk foo.bz2
% tar xjf archive.tar.bz2
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