Re: A85: Shrinking Backups


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Re: A85: Shrinking Backups



At 09:53 PM 9/6/97 EDT, Matthew R Price wrote:
>I noticed that the ZShell backups didn't include all 28K or so of the
>RAM.  How do I cut down my own backups so that I don't end up
>transmitting a lot of empty space?
>

Actually, no backup contains any empty space.  The ZShell backup is small
because there aren't that many variables in it.  Your backups will only be
big if there are large variables in it.  (The empty user RAM is not in the
backup file).


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