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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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Preserve Cloudfront brotli compression through a nginx reverse_proxy

My question is similar to Nginx reverse-proxy to a cloudfront distribution and preserve gzip compression but especially regarding the new brotli compression algorithm that is supposed to perform better than gzip in some cases My AWS Cloudfront…
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Opera Mini Compression Technology

I'm trying to find the technology used in Opera Mini's browser. I can't find anything related to this, so I would like to know if anyone knows whether there exists a paper on this or if there is something else available to the public. I would like…
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How to syncronize XML files and store them as .gz at destination using rsync

I'm using rsync -z to backup a large amount of XML files. The source is a huge machine with thousands of GBs available on disk, but the destination is not that powerful. What I want to do is to compress XML files during transfer and keep them…
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tar -z is very slow

I know this question has been asked before and I saw the recommendations on using pigz. Good recommendations, but I wanted to see if I really have a "problem". I have an esxi host. It's the free version so a lot of the enterprise tools don't work.…
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How to split file on Windows 2003 using MS supported tool

Is it possible to split a large file into smaller files on Windows 2003 using a tool provided/supported/sanctioned by Microsoft? I see that there are a lot of freeware tools (various zip tools) for this task, but I need to move files off of a…
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Is there a "smart" file compression utility that can apply different algorithms to different files?

I've got a Linux server I can only connect to remotely. I want to backup it, but it'll have to be over the Internet, and I've chosen Google Drive to hold the backups. The only piece of puzzle I still don't have is how to package and compress all the…
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Good self-extracting compressor for software content

I often perform upgrades on my client servers via remote desktop. While it's quite powerfull tool, when you want to transfer 100 MB it's a bit of slow. Therefore I use zip to make files smaller and avoid necessity of installing additional software…
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How to tar into a directory.

I would like to be able to tar all of my files so that when the are extracted they're in a sub directory I have specified. For example if I have File1 File2 and File3 inside of my current directory I would like to run a tar -jcvf files.tbz2 ./* in a…
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MySQL JDBC compression in transit

Good morning, I am looking to set my application connection to MySQL to compress data in transit. I read MySQL doc. but it's not cleat to me if I need to do something on the client side, on the server side, or if even it's possible. I know that…
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openvpn optimizations for Low bandwidth (250mb a month)

I am using openwrt lede with a lte stick 250-300mb a month depending on the unit so preferably hitting 250 or lower would be better for the entire system these are the clients the server doesn't have a cap like that it seems we are hitting about…
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What are the downsides of http compression?

I always was aware that http supports gzip compression, but never cared about it. I counted on that the servers and shared hosts I use would have activated it by default (I'm more of a frontend developer). Now I discover, that none of them has it.…
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how to compress a files inside a shell script file?

I have seen a .sh file on execution in terminal it extracts some jar files inside the sh file, how to create such sh files? i could not open that sh file in normal gedit to check the content. Is there any way to do that?
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How do I zip & download files on an ubuntu server?

I have gotten SSH access into an EC2 instance of Ubuntu. I want to zip an entire folder, and download it to my local machine. The folder is large - 2GB+. How do I do that?
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