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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IIS 7.5 dynamicCompressionLevel setting has no impact
I have a Web.API app with an action that is sending a 5MB json result (for reasons outside the scope of this question). Initially we weren't compressing json results for this server.
I added to the section under "httpCompression", and now Chrome…
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Quickest way to get large number of small files from remote FTP server
In Fintech, the following scenario seems fairly common:
You've paid for access to a huge collection of data, but it is made available to you as thousands of little files, each with a footprint in the neighborhood of 300 kB, but altogether amounting…
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Fluentd elasticsearch comprssion
I forward logs from app servers with fluentd (type tail) to elasticsearch server. Do not understand the following:
Can I enable for reducing traffic the compression transmitted logs with type tail or another type?
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How do you git archive a branch using gzip with highest compression level?
I'm trying to git archive a branch using gzip with the highest level compression (9) but it seems to not compress at that level. Here is my command:
git -C /home/user/example.com/ archive --format tar -o /home/user/site_backups/develop-`date…
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Zip Command Line Question
I have a Windows machine with a directory structure that contains files with a particular extension. I need a script that will add a zipped file for each file with that extension. Is there a way to do this with 7 Zip (7za.exe)? If not, are there…
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mod_deflate and Pagespeed
I´ve activated mod_deflate on my server. The problem is that Google pagespeed says that my site needs a compression.
Have anybody an idea?
This code is in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. I restartet apache.
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Is it possible to configure SQL Server 2005 to auto-compress backups?
I have created scheduled backup and shrink maintenance plans for my SQL 2005 instances using the tools in SQL Server Management Studio.
I am wondering, is there an equally easy method for compressing the backups once they have been created?
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Extracting 200 GB ZIP file
I have a large 200 GB file to extract. I was using WinRAR on a Windows laptop, and it's a very slow process.
I am considering using an Amazon EC2 instance to help speed up the process.
How can I speed up the process of extracting such a large file?
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Recover disk space after a terminated ZIP file creation
I was doing a big backup of 10GB text files to ZIP and then had to stop the ZIP creation half way through. I then discovered that although Control+Z stopped the ZIP fine BUT the space is lost.
I the temp filename like Zskhdj4d using the rm command…
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Dangers of NTFS compression?
What are the dangers of NTFS compression? Can I lose files? What if say my CPU, motherboard or PSU burns? What if some data on my HDD becomes corrupted?
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Unzip piping order
I have a file, foo.zip which looks something like this:
foo.zip
-- fileA.txt
-- fileB.txt
I can pipe the output of the extracted files like this:
unzip -p foo.zip *.txt | something
My problem is that I want to make sure that the files are in the…
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How to debug nginx + php-fpm download failures?
Downloads fail after all data downloaded on nginx + php-fpm.
I'm controlling downloads of zip files (roughly 100mb each) with a PHP script that streams the file directly to the client. I'm using php-fpm under Ubuntu 14.04 with nginx. Occasionally…
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zip in cron doesn't work, but zip from command is working
I need to back up a directory with
zip -r /savehere/backup_`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S` /save/this -q
It works fine. But not from crontab:
* * * * zip -r /savehere/backup_`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S` /save/this -q
neither
* * * * cd /savehere/; /usr/bin/zip -r…
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Decompress a PSC File
I need to restore a database that was backed up using navicat's compressed backup feature. But on the restore, there's an error coming up on one of the tables.
I can't look at the SQL statements in the file directly because they're compressed, and I…
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IIS 8.5, serving corrupt zip files
I have a WS2012r2 web server with multiple sites. We host zip files that are accessed though a direct URL (http://mysite.me/Test.zip").
These files are used to update our software and are downloaded using a c# WebClient but the same issue occurs…
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