fast way to zip

[aj_usa]

Hi,

Is there any alternate and faster way to zip archive files on unix instead of gzip ?

Pls provide inputs.

Thanks
Regards
Suresh

[davey23uk]

compress, bzip2

[mrchrispy]

try rm....it will compress it too zero bytes in no time at all.
HTH

[aj_usa]

Is compress, bzip2 an alternative compression routine that takes less time?

[davey23uk]

one way to find out, use them

[serg1257]

If you using Oracle 9R2 you can compress archivelog files.
If you using Oracle 10G you can compress rman backups.

Oracle claims that it's faster and compress rate is better since it know data structure.

[KenEwald]

Serg,

Try switches.

gzip -1 = fastest & least compression
gzip -9 = slowest & best compression

My tests showed a compression difference of 7% between -1 and -9.

I can't remember the speed difference, but it was worth it for us to gzip -1 our backups (at the time we were piping them through gzip). I think it saved us an hour or two of cpu time nightly.

Now we use compressed backups via RMAN! Really nice stuff.

-Ken