Re: gzip vs. compress

From: Allan Nelson <anelson77388_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:55:54 -0600
Message-ID: <ffb96860801221255x4a0eddb1pdae46db5481ab237@mail.gmail.com>


gzip is better than compress.

Allan

On Jan 22, 2008 1:54 PM, Joe Smith <joe_dba_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Which is better to use gzip or compress?
>
> All of my work is done on AIX 5L 64bit server.
>
> I am doing cold backups of databases where I tar and then compress the
> resulting file.
>
> I have always used compress, but I read that gzip gives better
> compression.
>
> Any thoughts will be appreciated.
>
>
>
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