5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew Nicols
2c2f4f17c3 MDL-24343 core: Deprecate unzip_file 2016-08-03 09:05:55 +08:00
Eric Merrill
c803fa6855 MDL-49298 backup: Make tgz file format standard for backups 2015-03-05 10:07:58 -05:00
Petr Škoda
2803f3c1b5 MDL-43402 remove all zlib detection code
Zlib extension is now required.
2013-12-27 11:06:18 +08:00
sam marshall
3749c94627 MDL-42714 Backup: For tgz packer, handle missing zlib extension 2013-11-06 12:34:46 +00:00
sam marshall
39e5102f8b MDL-41838 Backup/restore: Support .tar.gz format for .mbz (2 of 2)
The new experimental setting enabletgzbackups allows backups to be
created so that the internal format for .mbz files is .tar.gz.

Restore transparently supports .mbz files with either internal
formats (.zip or .tar.gz).

The .tar.gz format has the following benefits for backup:
- Supports larger files (no limit on total size, 8GB on single file
  vs. 4GB limit on total size)
- Compresses text better, resulting in smaller .mbz files.
- Reports progress regularly during compression of single files,
  reducing the chance of timeouts during backups that include a
  very large file.

Time performance may also be improved although I haven't done a
direct comparison.
2013-10-08 13:04:49 +01:00