I need to make a backup on my external hard drive. I looked both at rsync and incremental tar. The problem is that I want my backup to be compressed. With rsync I can only compress the data transfer, but not the result.
Hi,
I'm fairly new to administering RedHat (or any Linux system for that matter), and was wondering if someone could help me work out how to best manage audit logs.
In a nutshell, this is what I need to do:
- Compress audit.log file(s) once a month and delete the originals
- The compressed file should include the server name and date
- I need to get the compressed files from the RHEL server to
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I've been zipping files to send to people, and they're not being compressed, even though it says they are. or maybe they're being super-minimally compressed. But I even managed to zip a folder and have it turn out larger than the size of the original folder.
I've looked all across the web for answers, but nothing has helped, and using other programs has resulted in the same thing.
How can I ensure the folder that I tar and compress is good to be archive in DVD or tape? Must I uncompress and untar the file, or there is any way to tell the integerity of the compressed file before send to archive? I have bad experience on this, which the archive compressed file cold not be opened, the error message is unexpected EOF. I guess it could be incomplete archive process.
I was taking a backup of a folder, where I used the following command :
sudo tar -zcvf www.tar.gz /var/www/
It successfully compressed, just for verifying the number of files in the compressed archive, and the directory I ran the following commands :
sudo tar -ztvf www.tar.gz | wc -l -> 186364
ls -R /var/www | wc -l -> 196440
How come the count is different, what am I missing ?
Hello, Fedore users.
I'm wondering if there is any application being able to handle compressed SWF files. If I try it with mencoder (mplayer), it tells me:
[swf @ 0x91a0a30]Compressed SWF format not supported
No way in Fedora Core 11?
I have access to a server via SSH, I download files from it over SFTP or HTTP. I want to pull down a 4.4GB .mkv file but I have limited bandwidth.
I have used zip, gzip and p7zip, but the file is always 4.4GBs after the compression process. After fiddling with some of the CLI args I managed on one attempt to get the file down to 4.3GBs.
What is the likelyhood that linux will provide support for the ability to specify folders or even individual files to be compressed inside the filesystem and decompressed on the fly when opened by any application?
Basically this would behave the same way as in Windoze systems, even letting .zip files (or .gz etc) behave as if they are just folders containing compressed files/folders.
Just some w
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