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scandum · 12-19-2007, 03:42 AM

Mud output is generally repetitive though, often 50% of it is the same prompt (over and over) so zlib compresses it well.

Tarring using bzip2, (tar -jcf on most machines) rather than gzip, might create smaller backups btw.

12-19-2007, 03:42 AM	#19
scandum Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 315	Re: 4 Dimensions is moving on Mud output is generally repetitive though, often 50% of it is the same prompt (over and over) so zlib compresses it well. Tarring using bzip2, (tar -jcf on most machines) rather than gzip, might create smaller backups btw.