From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-12 17:34, Paul wrote:   
   > On Thu, 2/12/2026 7:06 AM, micky wrote:   
      
      
   > Backups can be compressed. To do this, I recommend "no compression at all"   
   > when making the original backup, so that one very good compressor does the   
   job   
   > when you are compressing the file. Compression takes a long time, unless   
   > you had prepared in advance with a Big Machine :-) The Big Machine does   
   > ultra compression at 50MB/sec. Which means you have to be "Very Patient"   
   > when waiting for it to finish. My partition full of ISOs, it does not   
   > compress at all. It's a total waste of time to compress that one. Whereas   
   > my partition full of iambic pentameter (poetry), that compresses very well.   
      
   Fast compression is almost as fast as the hard disk, say 150 MB/S. It   
   may not be worth it to use high compression.   
      
   If you are using NTFS, you can simply mark a directory as compressed,   
   and write everything to it. It should be fast. I don't remember if you   
   can adjust compression ratio.   
      
   On Linux, the only filesystem that does r/w transparent compression is   
   btrfs. Others announced it but never implemented it (ext3).   
      
      
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