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(Got a version of LZMA (.7z) working on OD)
(Using switches -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 has got it down to 21.1MB - slightly smaller than the windows version :-))
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I've found a standalone version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip and that's compressed it to 24.8MB, not quite as small as the windows one, but still very good.
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*I've found a standalone version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip and that's compressed it to 24.8MB, not quite as small as the windows one, but still very good.
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*Using switches <tt>-t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9</tt> has got it down to 21.1MB - slightly smaller than the windows version :-)

Revision as of 02:53, 20 November 2006

The organic design backups are created daily by User:Bender, compressed to .tgz and distributed over SSH to various other domains.

LZMA

LZMA is an extremely good compression method which compresses our backups to about one third of the size of the gzip or bzip. I have tested it with the free 7-zip file manager from www.7-zip.org and od-wiki-db-2006-11-20 is 268MB uncompressed, 54.9MB gzipped and only 21.7MB as a 7z! But I'm unable to get the Debian port to work due to dependency issues with low level C libraries that I don't want to mess with.

  • I've found a standalone version at http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip and that's compressed it to 24.8MB, not quite as small as the windows one, but still very good.
  • Using switches -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 has got it down to 21.1MB - slightly smaller than the windows version :-)