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Is "--use-compress-program" option missing?

Asked by Miro

Is it possible to use different compression engine that gzip/gunzip with duplicity?

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.

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edso (ed.so) said : 		#1

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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