Abstract: In this article we have a look at the compression options of common zipping tools and its impact on the size of the compressed files and the compression time. Further we look at the new parallel zip tools which make use of several cores.
Start with a backup first
From time to time I get into the situation where I have to compress some database files. This happens usually when I have to do some recovery work on customers systems. Our rule number 1 before starting with a recovery is: Do a file …
