God I love WinRAR

[Evadman]

I am doing the last 3 quarters of backups for my job tonight. I transfered them all over to a redundant array, now I am archiving them to disk (DVD) for offline storage.

I was way to lazy (and cheap) to make DVD's to hold all 34 GB of data (7 DVD's x 2 sets = 14 DVD's), so I busted out WinRAR 3.0 so I could span the files across DVD images.

I forgot how much this compacted files when using a 4mb dictionary. Holy crap. 86% smaller than the original files. Woot! 6.7 GB compacted all the way to 830MB. The only downside is it took about an hour to do. But who cares? I was eating dinner .

For the second archive I compressed about 225 delimited text files, all roughly the same format with drasiticly different data. 3.1 GB of files became 289 MB! A total comrpession rate of 91%! :laugh: Awesome!

At this rate I should be able to compress all 34 GB on to one DVD. Hell, I'll make 3 copies then!

 

[Zim Hosein]

At this rate I should be able to compress all 34 GB on to one DVD. Hell, I'll make 3 copies then!

:Q

I need to learn how to do that Evadman!

 

[FleshLight]

Winrar + Alt.Binaries.* > $.75

 

[BlueWeasel]

Yep, I'm slowly starting to use WinRAR over zip compression.

 

[T2T III]

WinRAR is my compression utility of choice. It has integrated oh-so-well with my Windows XP installation.

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Yep, I'm slowly starting to use WinRAR over zip compression.

Plus, WinRAR will still uncompress those old .Zip compressions that one might have laying around.

 

[MikeMike]

and you can still make .zip's if someone else doesnt have winrar.

MIKE

 

[simms]

I guess we all love WINRAR

 

[KK]

:thumbsup: for winrar. Though I only really use it for unpacking stuff. How well does it pack .jpgs? I got ~9 GB of pictures I should/need to back up.

 

[suklee]

:thumbsup:

 

[spanky]

winRAWR!

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: KK
:thumbsup: for winrar. Though I only really use it for unpacking stuff. How well does it pack .jpgs? I got ~9 GB of pictures I should/need to back up.

jpgs are already compressed, so I doubt you'll see much packing.

 

[zimu]

definitely winrar, i had transferred about 2 years back, haven't gone back to zip.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: KK
:thumbsup: for winrar. Though I only really use it for unpacking stuff. How well does it pack .jpgs? I got ~9 GB of pictures I should/need to back up.

Gimme a sec, I'll tell ya,but as Gooberlx2 said, it is not going to be much.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
Winrar + Alt.Binaries.* > $.75

AMEN!!!!!!
:beer::thumbsup::evil::heart:

 

[Crappopotamus]

ive always used winace...

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: KK
:thumbsup: for winrar. Though I only really use it for unpacking stuff. How well does it pack .jpgs? I got ~9 GB of pictures I should/need to back up.

Gimme a sec, I'll tell ya,but as Gooberlx2 said, it is not going to be much.

Yepperz, it sucked.

827 JPG's = 339,860,512 bytes/338,804,392 compressed. Total compression = 0.3 Percent

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: KK
:thumbsup: for winrar. Though I only really use it for unpacking stuff. How well does it pack .jpgs? I got ~9 GB of pictures I should/need to back up.

Gimme a sec, I'll tell ya,but as Gooberlx2 said, it is not going to be much.

Yepperz, it sucked.

827 JPG's = 339,860,512 bytes/338,804,392 compressed. Total compression = 0.3 Percent

waahoo, you save a MB.

KK

 

[Anubis]

why set it to a 4mb split? and not say a 700 meg one?

an what compression setting did you use

 

[PoPPeR]

i can't remember the last time I saw/used winzip

 

[cirthix]

i like winrar too, but those compression rates seem a little too high

 

[FrustratedUser]

Hmmm... 150Gb of pr0n.... could be saving space here.

 

[Ricochet]

Agreed. WinRAR is daBomb! Even Dos Pkzip > Winzip.

 

[paruhd0x]

Originally posted by: Anubis
why set it to a 4mb split? and not say a 700 meg one?

an what compression setting did you use

He said 4MB dictionary, not split size...

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: Anubis
why set it to a 4mb split? and not say a 700 meg one?

an what compression setting did you use

No, the dictionary is set at 4 MB. That is maximum compression in WinRAR for those who don't know. I have the split set at 700,000,000 bytes. so I can put on CD if I need to at a later date. (Work doesn't have a DVD burner, only CD. That is why I am doing it at home. If I were doing it at work, I would not have the use of WinRAR or a DVD burner. I would have had to put 37 GB on CD x 2 copies = 96 CD's! No way in hell.