Compress on FromDual GmbH

MySQL backup to file, gzip and load in one step

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:26:18 +0000

When a MySQL Slave is set-up with mysqldump you have 2 possibilities:

Does InnoDB data compression help with short disk space?

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:35:29 +0000

Because we are a bit short off disk space on one of our servers I had the idea to try out the MySQL feature Data Compression for InnoDB. This feature is useful if you have tables with VARCHAR, BLOB or TEXT attributes.

To zip, or not to zip, that is the question

oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com (Oli Sennhauser) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:12:20 +0000

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.