On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Yoink! wrote:
> You might get 2 to 3 percent compression of a mpg if it is a very efficient
> algorithm. Forget anothing over that. Don't bother to compress compressed
> data again.
yeah... just for fun, i tried gzip -9, and dropped from 3,5600K to
3,5500K.
> > Essentially, I'm looking at backing up a lot of highly compressed data. My
> > assumption is that I can expect that I really won't get that dreamt of 2:1
> > ratio on the tape label... I'd just like to get confirmation on that.
>
> 12G is a LOT for one tape....
True, but it gets really annoying when there's 13 gig to back up :)
brian
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