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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Compression Levels
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Compression Levels |
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Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:11:24 +0200 |
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On 16.06.2016 16:15, Ben Edwards via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Currently I am doing a encrypted backup and cant find any documentation on
> how to set compression level. I have seens mention of a COMPRESSION_LEVEL
> arable and --gpg-options but no details.
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> The drive I am backing up is around 17.4GB and the, backup around 14 so I
> guess I am getting around 25% but wondering if there is a way to save more.
>
check the gpg man page about supported algos and levels and then add something
like
--gpg-options="--compress-algo=bzip2 --bzip2-compress-level=9"
as gpg autodetects the compression while decrypting this parameter shouldn't
hurt decompression but have an effect on freshly encrypted files only.
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