Re: worse than expected compression ratios with -o compress

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Hello Jim,

Jim Faulkner wrote (ao):
> To contrast, rzip can compress a database dump of this data to
> around 7% of its original size.  This is an older database dump,
> which is why it is smaller.  Before:
> -rw------- 1 root root  69G 2010-01-15 14:55 mysqlurdbackup.2010-01-15
> and after:
> -rw------- 1 root root 5.2G 2010-01-16 05:34 mysqlurdbackup.2010-01-15.rz
> 
> Of course it took 15 hours to compress the data, and btrfs wouldn't
> be able to use rzip for compression anyway.

The difference between a life MySQL database and a dump of that database
is that the dump is text, while the database files are binary.

A fair comparison would be to compress the actual database files.

	With kind regards, Sander

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