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[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:11:20AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> >-Add a way to do a gzip and archive (or tar / gzip) so that people  can 
> >use the same UI even if they have limited space.
> 
>   Well, the idea behind not doing this originally was to simplify 
> restore but enough people have asked for it that it will most likely be 
> a feature in the next version.

I use afio rather than tar/gzip since afio compresses each file in the
archive with gzip rather than creating the archive and then compressing
it.  You loose some compression as a result but not much, but you gain
the ability to quickly seek through the file to the head for the file
you want and then start decompressing the file (and only the file)
rather than having to decompress the whole thing to find the header and
filedata you want, as you would with tar/gzip.  Makes restores very very
fast while still gaining compression.

Lennart Sorensen
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