Comment 2 for bug 629357
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| Mechanical snail (replicator-snail) wrote Re: [Feature Request] use xz not gzip for making the volumes | #2 |
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The choice of compression algorithm should be configurable. I might use lzop or gzip for backups locally or over a fast network, and xz over a slow internet uplink.
In any case, on slow connections, it's not that important to choose the optimal settings, as practically anything will be better than gzip but still fast enough to saturate the internet connection. (xz -9 -e achieves 0.5 MB/s on my laptop, which is sufficient for a residential internet connection.)