Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed backup scripts and compressed archive formats bz2 vs tar

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:58:58PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:

> It seems to me that
> 
>       sh upgrade-db.sh 17 18
> 
> resulted in a .BZ2 while
> 
>       gm-backup_database.sh
> 
> results in the older, less-efficient .tar … is this intended ?

gm-backup_database.sh

only backs up the database. If you want it zipped up you
need to run gm-zip+sign_backups.

This approach gives admins more freedom in CRONing backups.

While tar is certainly older it is not less efficient. In
fact, relative to bzip2 it is not intended to be in any way
efficient. It is an archive format, not a compression format.

Inside that bz2 you will find a tar.

Karsten
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