Decrease the size of data, typically to preserve space or reduce network bandwidth required while transmitting files. It can be applied to files, folders, disks, etc.
Questions tagged [compression]
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How to read gitlab-workhorse logs?
I am running gitlab omnibus installation on local server.
There are certain incidents which happened and would like to see the logs in gitlab-workhorse.
The files in /var/log/gitlab/gitlab-workhorse from previous day are named something like the…

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Sharepoint Document Library - Change .Zip to .Junk
Anytime I post a zip file with a renamed extension to .anything, it will always download as a .zip file. I have organizations that need to download these files, but cannot download .zip files. Is there anyway to have SharePoint not convert the…

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Are there any tipping points when compressing contents of web server responses might not be the right choice?
I'm running an API Proxy server and want to compress the (uncompressed) response contents I get from the API endpoints in order to send them faster to the client that initiated the request.
However, I'm wondering if there are any tipping points when…
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How to prevent compression of images served via HTTP
I have an already optimized JPEG image in my server 32.07 kB (and in my local computer), 800px * 534px, if I request it via browser, it keeps the same width * height, but its size gets smaller 17,97 Ko and becomes pixelated.
I checked Apache…

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Hyper-V avhd files compressed
I have inherited a machine at a client site that the previous IT person thought it would be a bright idea to compress all the AVHD and the base VHD files for one of their servers running under hyper-v on a 2008 R2 host. I have 4 of the 6 files…

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Can't get included CSS and JS files to be compressed
I have enabled compression via .htaccess and in httpd.conf
However when I run it through the various online testers, its always saying that various included files are not compressed. Apache version is 2.2.15
.htaccess currently looks like this:
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HTTP compression in Apache reverse proxy?
I have an App server where Apache httpd is installed which serves the requests. We have another Proxy machine which redirects the requests to this App Server httpd using proxy pass.
When I apply gzip in App Server level its working fine. But, When I…

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How can I do this to a Maintenance Plan
i've got a pretty simple maintenance plan that does a full backup of my db to a network'd location. works perfectly.
I'm wanting to 7zip the backup file AFTER the backup was done.
Is there a way i can do this in a maintenance plan? maybe using…

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Trouble getting DEFLATE working on Apache 2.2
I discovered that my server isn't serving up compressed pages.
Using this answer, I added the following to my httpd conf file:
# Declare a "gzip" filter, it should run after all internal filters like PHP or SSI
FilterDeclare gzip CONTENT_SET
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Compress concrete files on dfs
We work with a lot of Microsoft Access files for different costumers. That files are saved in different folders(also in subfolders) for every year separated by year,costumer ,month, etc.
The main thing here is that I want to compress all the access…

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Disable compression for Nginx serving PDFs
How do I disable compression for PDFs using Nginx? Related question, how do I stop Adobe Reader from automatically opening the PDF, instead of saving it to the hard drive?

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Cache-Control Header & Browser Caching IIS7
I am using Google Page Speed on my website in IIS7 and I was wondering how to set
Leverage browser caching - The following resources are missing a cache expiration
Leverage proxy caching - Consider adding a "Cache-Control: public" header to the…
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IIS7 Compression
I have searched around and havent really found an answer anywhere and this is still not working for me. I am using compression in IIS7 and it doesn't appear to be working. The code I am using is per
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7z “is not supported archive” while updating an archive
7za u -pPasswored -mhe=on -r -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m '-x!temp' filename.7z /home/software
While updating the archive we are getting this error:
Error: XXXXXXX.7z is not supported archive
System error:
Operation not permitted

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BASH: bz2 to gzip conversion with find
I would like to convert a muliply bzip2 files to gzip format. I achived this with foor loop but I would like to do the same with find:
BASH for loop:
for i in $(ls -1 *.bz2); do echo "Converting: $i to ${i%.bz2}.gz"; { bunzip2 -c $i | gzip >…

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