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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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running winzip on a remote machine

I have a remote server that i want to unzip some file onto: At first, I ran Winzip to unzip on my local machine and then copied it to the remote server but that copy action was very slow I then copied over the zip file to the remote server and ran…
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IIS 6 Compression for a folder

I want to enable IIS 6 compression for all of the folders in my application except one; in this one folder, I do some things that fails when IIS 6 compression is enabled... Any advice? Thanks.
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Windows command line built-in compression/extraction tool?

I need to write a batch file to unzip files to their current folder from a given root folder. Folder 0 |----- Folder 1 | |----- File1.zip | |----- File2.zip | |----- File3.zip | |----- Folder 2 …
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zip to exclude all .svn folders

trying to exclude all .svn folders in the zipped subfolders zip -urq bebe.zip * -x .svn doesn't work...
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Debian: Simple way to compress files wanted

I often need to compress archives in Linux. is there a simpler way instead of always building such complicated commands? tar zcvf /tmp/mybackup.tar.gz /home/important
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is there a faster way to extract a large file tar in lz4 format?

I have a 7 TB file that is tared with lz4 compression. It takes about 8 hours to extract. is there a faster way to do this? This is the command I use: lz4 -d /mnt/tmp/7TBFile.lz4 | tar -xvf -
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Returning compressed data when client omits accept-encoding header

In the HTTP 1.1 Standard, it says that "If no Accept-Encoding field is in the request, any content-coding is considered acceptable by the user agent." Which means that a server can, for example, return a gzip-encoded response body if the…
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scp with -C flag does not perform compression

The scp man page shows that the -C flag can be used for compressing a file on the fly while performing a remote copy - $ man scp | grep "\-C" -C Compression enable. Passes the -C flag to ssh(1) to enable compression. However, when I…
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Changes in compression rate

Every month I usually compress all my database dumps into a rar file. I was very happy with the compression rate, as each compressed file was usually about 30MB, with a compression rate of 99%. Since a few weeks ago, without having touched anything…
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Stratis filesystem will not mount after a reboot because the disk is full

It concerns a rhel8 server that has two disks (sda and sdb), and only on the sdb disk a Stratis filesystem has been created. After a restart of the server, no more mount point appears on the sdb disk. When I try to mount it I get the following…
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community.windows.win_unzip shows Filename contains relative paths which would extract outside the destination error message

I'm trying to unzip a zip file in a remote server This file was download first from jFrog repository The following task should handle the unzip: - name: Unzip Config.zip file community.windows.win_unzip: src: C:\files\config.zip dest:…
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Transfer Compression with Cloudfront and nginx SSI

Is there any way to enable GZIP / Brotli compression on Cloudfront if the origin is a nginx server with SSI (Server Side Includes) enabled? The issue seems that nginx SSI drops the Content-Length header, as it doesn’t know the content length at the…
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ZFS Transfer extremely bursty

I am testing a new ZFS configuration with z-std for log storage and storage of highly compressible files. The Array is tested on a 5 drive raidz-1 in a virtual machine on my PC which has direct access to the whole HDDs. ZFS 2.0.2 is running in a…
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How do I make a compressed disk image (qcow2 and/or squashfs) from a disk directly?

I have a disk attached to my server and I want to make the disk image of it downloadable on the same server. The disk itself is 500GB but I don't want to have a 500GB disk image for download. I'd like to try using squashfs containing the disk image.…
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Tool to create pre-compressed [Brotli] files

I am trying to pre-generate compressed brotli files in designated directories for static html, css and js files. I found a rust tool here – https://github.com/neosmart/static-compress Besides this, there’s also an option within the W3TC WordPress…
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