Most space-efficient way to store log entries

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Thu Oct 29 18:16:23 EDT 2015


In a message of Fri, 30 Oct 2015 08:28:07 +1100, Cameron Simpson writes:
>On 29Oct2015 09:15, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
>>Did the OP say he wanted to keep his compressed logfiles on a
>>local disk?  What if he wants to send them across the internet
>>to some other machine and would like the transfer to happen as
>>quickly as possible?
>
>Then he's still better off keeping them uncompressed and using compression in 
>the transfer. "ssh -o compression=yes" or "rsync -z", etc.
>
>Cheers,
>Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

"ssh -o compression=yes" is what I am using.
But I am all ears for a better idea.

We can do no better?

Laura




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