Re: [Duplicity-talk] no-compression still compresses?
From:
Cory Coager
Subject:
Re: [Duplicity-talk] no-compression still compresses?
Date:
Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:07:56 -0500
The resultant files are indeed gzipped as I was able to manually uncompress them. This may be related to the bug you speak of and I updated the ticket yesterday.
On Wednesday, March 6, 2013, <address@hidden> wrote:
> i see.. so it can be mistaken, cause it only tries to interpret what file type it may be? > > anyway, sigtar, difftar should be untarable with tar, right? so he could try that. > > or, just to find out if it compresses: backup a quite big plain text/sql dump file.. the resulting volume will be significantly smaller if it really compresses although forbidden.
> > ..ede/duply.net > > On 06.03.2013 16:27, Michael Terry wrote: >> He means running "file XXX". >> >> "file" is a standard GNU/unix command to determine what a file actually is (rather than just by filename).
>> >> -mt >> >> >> On 6 March 2013 04:18, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>> >> On 06.03.2013 03:02, Cory Coager wrote: >> > I'm using --no-encryption and --no-compression for a backup. I noticed the files have a .difftar extension instead of .difftar.gz. However, running a file against these shows that they are still gzip'd with max compression. Why is this happening? Am I missing something?
>> > >> > I'm using version 0.6.21 from Ubuntu ppa. >> >> >> shouldn't be.. how do you test? what do you mean by " running a file against these "?
>> >> i wouldn't advise to use --no-compression. afaik it has a bug in restoring currently.. check the launchpadpad bug tracker. >> >> ..ede/duply.net <http://duply.net>
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