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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Archiving big ammount of files. Post 302179412 by era on Thursday 27th of March 2008 04:08:37 PM
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If they are already gzipped, tarring and gzipping again is likely to bring only marginal gains, unless the files are very similar. Might be worth it to just burn one DVD more and put them as regular files without tarring and gzipping -- you don't want to risk making all of them useless if one of the DVDs is damaged. Also the added benefit of random access is muuuuch nicer than having to read through four DVDs of gzipped tar just to extract a single file on the last DVD.
 

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GZFORCE(1)						      General Commands Manual							GZFORCE(1)

NAME
gzforce - force a '.gz' extension on all gzip files SYNOPSIS
gzforce [ name ... ] DESCRIPTION
gzforce forces a .gz extension on all gzip files so that gzip will not compress them twice. This can be useful for files with names trun- cated after a file transfer. On systems with a 14 char limitation on file names, the original name is truncated to make room for the .gz suffix. For example, 12345678901234 is renamed to 12345678901.gz. A file name such as foo.tgz is left intact. SEE ALSO
gzip(1), gznew(1), gzmore(1), gzgrep(1), gzdiff(1), gzexe(1) ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWgzip | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | External | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for gzip is available in the SUNWgzipS package. GZFORCE(1)
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