Re: Installing/Building (was Re: Size of hotbackup.py files versus svnadmin dump files)

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 07:36:12AM -0400, WC Jones wrote:
> On Saturday, May 17, 2003, at 05:59 AM, Michael Wood wrote:
>
> >On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:14:56PM -0400, Edmund Lian wrote:
> >[snip]
> >>svnadmin dump --> 129Mb file
> >>hotbackup.py --> 429Mb directory tree
> >>
> >>svnadmin dump + tar --> 88Mb file
> >>hotbackup.py + tar --> 28Mb file
> >[snip]
> >
> >Why bother running "tar" on a single file (repos dump)?
>
>
> That 'gtar' version compresses as well. Regular tar doesn't =)

No it doesn't. It just calls gzip in the background.

> Makes script maintenance easier...

If you say so :)

> gtar zcvf compressed_tar.tgz source files ...

Fine, if you don't know how many files it's going to be before hand, but
if you always only have one file, what's so hard about:

        $ gzip -9 repo.dump
or
        $ bzip2 -9 repo.dump

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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