Reduce local disk space needs by not (redundantly) gzipping backups

RGJ · August 30, 2024, 10:06pm

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discourse/discourse/blob/7b89fdead98606d4f47ceb0a1d240d0f6e5f589e/lib/compression/tar.rb#L13-L21


      
          Discourse::Utils.execute_command(
            "tar",
            "--create",
            "--file",
            tar_filename,
            target_name,
            failure_message: "Failed to tar file.",
          )

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Reduce local disk space needs by not (redundantly) gzipping backups

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