Re: compressed mode for tape drive

From: Tom (tomNOSPAM_at_teameazyriders.com)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:20:17 +0100

> Do you know if it is usefull to use compress (cvzf) when all the files you
> backup are already compressed (with gzip for example) ?

If the backup is allready compressed then trying to compress further may
actually increase its size

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