parallel compress
Bug #1321422 reported by
Anton
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| sbackup |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
With my new USB3 external disk, suddenly gzip becomes the bottleneck for making backups. With drop-in replacement pigz for gzip and pbzip2 for bzip2, this is easily fixed.
I attach a patch for ar_backend/tar.py to check for installed pigz and/or pbzip in /usr/local (that is what Ubuntu does...), and set tar commandline options appropriately. I can confirm that this works for me.
Revision history for this message
| Anton (feenstra) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in sbackup: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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| Anton (feenstra) wrote | #2 |
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two years after my patch, this hasn't made it into ubunto repo's (freshly installed 16.04).
what is needed to get it there? IMHO, this is a clean fix. May only work for Ubuntu but will not hurt anywhere else.