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Old 06-10-2008
gzip seems to be the way to go have looked at many sources can't really beat it. The compression is needed to gzip oracle nightly exports. There are hotbackups aswell and it would be worth the risk for some of the databases for compression to fail. The best solution we have come up with is using zfs disk compression, that saves us about 20 gb on a 50gb file, and since disk is pretty cheap we heading down that road Smilie
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Old 06-10-2008
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Originally Posted by aleks001
The best solution we have come up with is using zfs disk compression, that saves us about 20 gb on a 50gb file, and since disk is pretty cheap we heading down that road Smilie
ZFS compression is certainly fast, but it's not gzip (at least not by default IIRC). Later versions have a gzip option, but the default is lzjb, which is almost zero overhead, but of course doesn't compress as well.

I, too, love transparent filesystem compression in ZFS. Smilie
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