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More Dabbling with File Compression Types
15.Dec.07 | Leave a Comment
Continuing my research into a fast and effective compression option for large files (see part 1), I’ve stumbled over some surprising numbers. My hope is this stuff will help me at a later date when I revisit this topic — and hopefully it’ll help someone else too. Since I’m a sharer, here is [...]
7-Zip: Compression vs. Speed
14.Dec.07 | 5 Comments
Earlier this year I had discovered the joys of running 7-Zip with the multi threaded support. At the time, I saw some incredible time savings. Since then, however, the files being compressed have gotten much larger and I’m back to some inordinately long compression runs.
As a quick refresher, 7-Zip is an open source file [...]
More Power
13.Apr.07 | Leave a Comment
Last week, in “The Wonders of 7-zip” I discussed how enabling multi-thread support chopped my nightly backup zip times from 3 hours to just over 1 hours (actually 1.25 hours).
Today I ran the same process on a new server, which is sporting a single, but quad-core Xeon. It did the same job in 30 [...]
The Wonders of 7-Zip
06.Apr.07 | 1 Comment
This past week, I've spent a lot of time going over our nightly job streams and the various relationships between jobs across our many servers. These jobs handle things like code promotion, database syncs (dev/qa/prod), backups, mirrors, disaster recovery, etc. etc. Things have changed a lot since I initially put a lot of [...]
