From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: backup.pl - gzip not working as expected!?
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:48:09 +0100
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Hello,

> On 25 Dec 2021, at 20:53, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> =
wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I wondered for some time - since Friday 21.5.2021 ( ;-) ) - that the IPF
> files of the ISO backups turned out much larger than before.

Yes, they were indeed not compressed at all:

https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D12737

So this should be resolved in c163. Can you test and confirm?

-Michael

> Today I tested: when I make a backup *without* logs, the resulting IPF
> is about *26MB* in size.
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> The same file is about *108MB* in size when I make an *ISO backup*.
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> So I ran ' /var/ipfire/backup/bin/backup.pl iso' from console and
> watched the output.
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> After some time, 'gzip' told me:
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> ...
> gzip: /var/ipfire/backup/2021-12-25-20:34.ipf already has .ipf suffix --
> unchanged
> ...
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> For results, please see attached screenshot (and yes: I use tables... ;-) ).
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> The first IPF was created using 'Generate ISO', the second using
> 'Exclude logfiles'.
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> Can anyone confirm?
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> Best,
> Matthias<ipf_files_differ_in_size.png>


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