Questions tagged [compression]

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.

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How to set apache 2.2 gzip compression level?

I am running Debian and Apache/2.2.22 I have gzip enabled, and I would like to know, what is my compression level and how to change it. I know this can be achieved editing php.ini, but I would like to configure it in apache. How can it be done?
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SQL Server 2012 Backups Not Compressing

We recently upgraded from SQL Server 2008R2 to SQL Server 2012 Enterprise. After doing this I noticed that our DB backups were barely compressing at all. Our 22gb DB was compressing down to about 4gb before upgrading to 2012 and after the upgrade…
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How to ideally store images on Amazon S3

I want to store a huge number of images on Amazon S3 (served via Cloudfront). Currently the way I am doing is simply dumping the images and having basic HTTP Cache headers set to a month so that users can have fast browsing experience. But I still…
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is there any cisco-compatible ipsec+comp module?

I am looking for a waqy to establish an Ipsec tunnel(with lzs-compression enabled) between a cisco router and a host(using strongswan or sth else). I can establish a tunnel without lzs-compression. but I need a way to support lzs or modules which…
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gzip compression using mod_deflate apache with tomcat

I'm trying to enable gzip compression in my Apache server which is fronting a Tomcat instance using a connector. I tried several variants of the module configuration settings in my httpd.conf. Here is my latest attempt:
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Concatenating gziped Apache logs

We rotate and compress our Apache logs each day but it's become apparent that this isn't frequently enough. An uncompressed log is about 6G, which is getting close to filling our log partition (yep, we'll make it bigger in the future!) as well as…
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http mod deflate compression works on some but not all CSS files?

I'm trying to get mod deflate and gzip setup on my server. It's all working swimmingly but it does not appear be be catching all files. It's not that it is missing ALL javascript or ALL CSS. It appears to be missing some javascript and some CSS. For…
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IIS6: Serve static content gzipped for clients that support it

How can I configure IIS to automatically serve static resources (pictures, javascript, css and so on) compressed for clients that support it - and serve "normal" content for clients that does not support compression ? Also, can IIS6 cache the…
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How to enable gzip for files not on your server?

I'm running a gtmetrix.com report against my site. I get an F(41) for gzip compression. I don't own the two problem files mentioned for this penality. One file is a CSS on Mailchimp's server. Another is a javascript file that can't be gzipped…
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How is Apache 1.3 compressing?

More specifically, I would like suggestions as to how my server is encoding in gzip compressed format. We have once OC4J container that serves gzip transfer encoding, and others do not. Trying to turn compression off in the working container, we…
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SugarCRM CE: upgrade from 6.5.9 to 6.5.11 Fails with "ZIP Error(0): Status(0): Arhive(upload://SugarCE-6.5.11.zip)"

I have a fresh running installation of SugarCRM Version 6.5.9 (Build 8653) hosted at Bluehost.com (shared hosting) When I use the upgrade wizard, the system checks are all successful. Then I get the dialog where I need to select the package to…
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How to unzip "Zip archive data, at least v3.0 to extract" on Ubuntu

I downloaded some virtual machine image (IE9_Win7) from modern.ie, but I can't extract it on Ubuntu 12.04. It errors out with: Archive: IE9_Win7.zip warning [IE9_Win7.zip]: 707116788 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile (attempting to…
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7zip logging & left-over .tmp files

I have a batch file that runs nightly to compress some PST's, it uses 7zip & generally is pretty successful. However it tends to create left-over .tmp files (9 over 2 days), I want to delete these. According to multiple 7zip forums, patch requests,…
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Varnish 3 performs gunzip even though entire pipeline is gzipped

I'm refactoring my Varnish VCL and can't figure out this one thing. Varnish 3.0 natively supports gzipped content, and it essentially seems to do the right thing. See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12962493/35434 However, Varnish still performs a…
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HTTP Compression Proxy

I'm looking for a HTTP compression proxy. Basically, I need a proxy to compress images and text to be transferred over a slow internet connection when accessing the web. To put it into a diagram CLIENT ---/fast local network/--- HTTP COMPRESSION…
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