Re: [Summary-Talk] Compressed log archive question

[Luc Dubois <luc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason, Lyn,

I've been using 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) on Windows XP for more
than a year now to compress my log files to bzip2 format before
loading them into Summary. Works like a charm.

Luc


On 8 Oct, 2005, at 20:50, Jason Linhart wrote:

> 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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