[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Probkup with Compression and Redundancy (-com and -red n)

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-com works fine but does not provide much reduction in backup size. -red 10 would add 10 percent to the size of your backup. it was originally implemented when UNIX tape drivers, tapes, and tape hardware were often flaky and unreliable. these days, that is not a problem. however, i have run into bad backups now and then and the redundancy might have made them readable but it was not being used.

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