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[feature request] compression upon backup

Open tangodev opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments
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Hello,

I've been using this extension for quite some time, mainly to perform backups. I'd like to request compression as an extra option (tar.gz, zip, others?).

As a result, instead of a directory foo, IET-NG would produce a file, ex. foo.tar.gz, foo.zip etc..

Rationale:

  • backups tend to be in multiple GiBs of size
  • text compresses well
  • larger, compressed tarballs are easier to handle than directories with tons of small files
my setup
thunderbird: 91.5.0 on ubuntu
iet-ng: 11.1

tangodev avatar Feb 06 '22 20:02 tangodev

Yes, it would be very nice to have compressed backups. Especially when you backup to HDD network storage, copying small files (maildir fomat) is very, very slow. Making backup of about 5 GB mails to NAS with HDD disks takes hours.

SylwesterZarebski avatar Apr 28 '25 08:04 SylwesterZarebski