Re:Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
by nenolod on Monday April 15, 2013 @03:46PM
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the compression is unnecessary here, you're moving a max of less than a couple of hundred GB of data.
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Re:Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
by cookiecaper on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @12:10PM
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It's pretty necessary if you aren't moving between colocated boxes. "less than a couple hundred GB of data" is still a lot of data to be moving around, even on a 100Mb/s link, which almost no one in America has residentially, and isn't even a guarantee for colo'd machines.
In most cases, compression at the raw block level will result in HUGE size savings, especially since a lot of that may be free space. It might even make this transfer tenable.