Re: compression in dump(8)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <alpine.NEB.2.11.1605021214260.2294%m83.parsec.com@localhost>,
Swift Griggs  <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>I notice that the dump command in NetBSD doesn't feature the use of any 
>internal compression. If one compresses the dump file, then you can't use 
>it as the basis for a restore. 
>
>Is that because the compression functions aren't in libc (ie.. they are 
>off in libz or liblzma) ? Perhaps it's just a matter of someone doing the 
>work ? It'd be a big help for admins who want to be able to use a modern 
>compression algorithm without having to uncompress the dump to use it. I 
>for one, would use it on all my systems. 
>
>-Swift

Doesn't that work?

zcat dump.gz | restore -f -

christos