What do you use to compress the files?

Post #288,620 by Another Scott 7/10/07 10:30:52 AM Reply	What do you use to compress the files? Zip gets really pokey as the file size increases, but it's nearly universal on just about any platform. Any backups I make would have to be restorable on Winders, and ideally OS X as well. And Linux, of course. I'd be nervous about going above 4 GB as well, in case something needed to go back on FAT32 (which has a 4 GB file size limit). Thanks. Cheers, Scott.
Post #288,622 by folkert 7/10/07 11:25:04 AM Reply	I use tar to make the archive, gzip or bzip2 to compress. You make an iso filesystem with only the single archive file on it. And if you mount the DVD it has the tar.gz (or bz2) on it. tar zxf /media/dvd/backup01.tar.gz filename Does the job just fine. Once the file is ON the DVD (after you create it and burn it to it) you just use it like any other backup media. Remember you have to think of it like a tape. I've always written archive files to tape and not the tape device as it gets messy. Of course this would also work on Windows in that way. BTW, all current GUI zip programs know and understand tar archives and also completely understand gzip files. Even in the Windows World. Heck even in W2K if you set a couple of registry entries, straight Windows explorer could traverse tar files and extract them from the .gz without add-ons. But that is another story. OSX shouldn't have ANY problem. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* `PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0 Alternate Fingerprint: 455F E104 22CA 29C4 933F 9505 2B79 2AB2`
Post #288,649 by Another Scott 7/10/07 6:30:30 PM Reply	Thanks. I'll check it out.
Post #288,625 by pwhysall 7/10/07 11:53:41 AM Reply	Consider using 7-zip. Cross-platform, Free, and squashes things dead good. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator] [image\|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png\|0\|Darwinia\|\|]
Post #288,650 by Another Scott 7/10/07 6:32:41 PM Reply	Thanks. It looks good. I'll bet FC/W can use it, too.
Post #288,679 by pwhysall 7/11/07 1:10:28 AM Reply	FC/W? Wossat? Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator] [image\|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png\|0\|Darwinia\|\|]
Post #288,695 by Another Scott 7/11/07 8:31:54 AM Reply	FileCommander/W - a Norton Commander clone. [link\|http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html\|It]'s 32-bit, very functional, very stable, and being text mode - quick. It started out on OS/2. I've been using it since v0.09 or something like that. [link\|http://silk.apana.org.au/pub/fcw/fcw230-dev.zip\|Here] is the latest beta version. You'll need the release version 2.20 to get the help file, etc., to know the function of the key combinations (beyond the NC keys, that is). It's shareware, but I think it competes very well with a lot of the freeware file managers/editors/etc. out there. There's occasional talk on the mailing list about a Linux version, but I don't think Brian has committed to that. Cheers, Scott.

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