Re: How to increace nightly backup speed - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bernhard Weisshuhn
Subject Re: How to increace nightly backup speed
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Msg-id 456E07F5.60803@weisshuhn.de
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In response to Re: How to increace nightly backup speed  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
Responses Re: How to increace nightly backup speed  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Chris Browne schrieb:

> There are other options out there that could conceivably change the
> price of compression, such as:
>
> http://www.lzop.org/
> http://www.quicklz.com/
>
> Of course, those are not as well known compression systems, and so are
> not as well trusted.  Maybe worth looking into, tho.

LZO is pretty much rock solid. It is used in OpenVPN and supposedly was
used for the communication with NASAs Mars Rovers Spirit and
Opportunity, if that counts as trusted.

regards,
  bkw

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