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Automated Backups with Existing Tools | |
| Subject: | Compression? | |
| Date: | 2004-02-15 17:22:05 | |
| From: | lonney | |
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I'm going to get a firewire disk soon for backups of my shiny new PowerBook 12" DVI (its my first apple and I love it to bits)
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Compression?
2004-02-16 15:05:06 peterhickman [Reply | View]
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Compression?
2004-02-16 23:57:40 peterhickman [Reply | View]
I take that back, it does indeed compress well my 11Gb went down to 5.5Gb. However, and there is always one, the backup took longer, almost twice as long, and the image file takes a damn long time to mount.
Presumably uncompressing a 5Gb image takes some time.




hdiutil create -srcfolder $SOURCE -fs HFS+ -volname $VOLUMENAME $IMAGENAMEIf you hold on for 24 hours I am testing this and will tell you how it goes but I don't expect it will be amazingly smaller (but we shall see) but it should be quicker.
And you should be able to use the resulting image files in the same way as before.