Re: [Duplicity-talk] no-compression still compresses?

[edgar . soldin]

thanks for following up. could we interest you in fixing this? any contribution 
is valued lots.

..ede/duply.net

On 06.03.2013 18:33, Cory Coager wrote:
> Bug ticket id is 1029516.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Cory Coager <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     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 <mailto: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.
>     >
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>     >
>     > 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> 
> <mailto: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.
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