Questions tagged [rar]

I uses RAR since it was released a decade ago perhaps. However it is good for desktop applications I just found that on server where I need to compress a lot of text files every weekend it takes ages. I looked into CPU usage and RAR takes around…

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…

I can't find any information online about this, hopefully someone here can help out. Our website hosts MOV downloads, but server space has started to become a concern. We have found that RAR can reduce the file size by as much as 70%. Unfortunately…