Re: [Duplicity-talk] Another Newbie Question - sorry

[Bob Smither]

On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 23:59 -0400, Jacob Godserv wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:43:12 -0500
> Bob Smither <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I must be missing something.  Can someone explain this?
> 
> I'm no expert, but I do know that duplicity runs some compression, so if
> you're backing up a lot of text files, that's probably why the archive
> is smaller.

Thanks Jacob.  I finally noticed this in the GPG man page:

"The default is to use  the  default  compression level  of zlib
(normally 6).""

A great feature of duplicity - maybe it should be better advertised or
at least mentioned in the man page?

Best regards.