Force gzip to ignore the filename and timestamp

sukria / Backup-Manager

Versatile yet easy to use command line backup tool for GNU/Linux. Suitable for desktop and servers.

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Force gzip to ignore the filename and timestamp #80

Closed maxyz closed 8 years ago

maxyz commented 8 years ago

By default gzip stores the filename and timestamp of the contained file, this prohibits any posibility of detecting dupes (when the files are not generated in the same second as done by the current dupes test).