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Re: Compressing hippos really fast
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
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- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:05:28 +0100
- Subject: Re: Compressing hippos really fast
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On Mar 4 18:35, Phil Betts wrote:
> I had this problem ages ago. My solution was to run two backups.
> One uncompressed including only files globbing *.gz, *.t[bg]z, *.[zZ],
> *.bz2, *.zip etc, and one for the remainder which was piped
> through gzip.
I guess that's the way to go in the long run.
Corinna