Re: [Duplicity-talk] no-compression still compresses?

[Cory Coager]

The resultant files are indeed gzipped as I was able to manually uncompress them. This may be related to the bug you speak of and I updated the ticket yesterday.

On Wednesday, March 6, 2013,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> i see.. so it can be mistaken, cause it only tries to interpret what file type it may be?
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> anyway, sigtar, difftar should be untarable with tar, right? so he could try that.
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> or, just to find out if it compresses: backup a quite big plain text/sql dump file.. the resulting volume will be significantly smaller if it really compresses although forbidden.
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> On 06.03.2013 16:27, Michael Terry wrote:
>> He means running "file XXX".
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>> "file" is a standard GNU/unix command to determine what a file actually is (rather than just by filename).
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>> -mt
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>> On 6 March 2013 04:18, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>>     On 06.03.2013 03:02, Cory Coager wrote:
>>     > I'm using --no-encryption and --no-compression for a backup.  I noticed the files have a .difftar extension instead of .difftar.gz. However, running a file against these shows that they are still gzip'd with max compression.  Why is this happening?  Am I missing something?
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>>     > I'm using version 0.6.21 from Ubuntu ppa.
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>>     shouldn't be.. how do you test? what do you mean by " running a file against these "?
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>>     i wouldn't advise to use --no-compression. afaik it has a bug in restoring currently.. check the launchpadpad bug tracker.
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