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Re: [Question #249971]: Is "--use-compress-program" option missing?

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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:12:18 -0000
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Question #249971 on Duplicity changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/249971

    Status: Open => Answered

edso proposed the following answer:
On 09.06.2014 14:56, Miro wrote:
> New question #249971 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/249971
> 
> Is it possible to use different compression engine that gzip/gunzip with duplicity? 

not per se. for encrypted backups you can advise gpg to use different compressions via '--gpg-options' .
 
> It seems to me that it would be useful to replace gzip/gunzip with its parralelized implementation pigz/unpigz on most of modern hardware. At least with plain "tar" this  provides me some performance benefit. 
> 

gzip is used via python API. not sure something like that exists for
python natively.


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