Re: [Summary-Talk] Compressed log archive question

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lyn wrote:
> I read that Summary is able to interpret compressed (zip) logs.

Yes. Summary can work with logs compressed in Zip, GZip, or BZip2 formats.

> Does Summary somehow unzip the logs prior to reading them, or do the
> logs remain zipped? I'm approaching a full disk situation and can
> really save some space by using the compressed log feature.

Summary reads the compressed logs directly, no temporary uncompressed
files are written to disk.

Zip compression of log files is quite good, but BZip2 can compress logs 
significantly smaller. However, BZip2 requires significantly more time 
to achieve this compression and is not as easy to use on Windows 
systems. <http://www.bzip.org/>

GZip is almost exactly the same as Zip in both speed and compression.
Better support for Zip is available on Windows. Better support for GZip
is available on Macintosh and Linux.

Jason

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