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  1. [all variants] Re: Is this right? 4.4 GB folder compressed to 898 MB?

    @SeijiSensei

    thanks for that informative post!

    Indeed they are a lot of text files and there is also a PostgreSQL database in there, but I have no idea what the format for that is.

    I have...
  2. [all variants] Re: Is this right? 4.4 GB folder compressed to 898 MB?

    Ok I copied the file to a different server via scp, and untarred, then did a:


    du -hs uncompressedfolder

    result: 4.4G

    As I was still skeptic I did a du and counted the files:
  3. [all variants] Is this right? 4.4 GB folder compressed to 898 MB?

    I am trying to make a backup of a folder which size is 4.4GB, this folder also contains subfolders that I need to backup, so I just figured I could tar the entire folder like this:


    tar cvzf...
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