after some freeware to compress a 3.6gig file to 700mb

Pulse · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:14

Yeah it was KGB. Just google "64kb san andreas" can't post a link because of the piracy.

yhack · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:18

Winrar and select "Create Solid Archive" and "Best" compression. That's given me the best results when compressing things.

toon_mad · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:32

Pulse said:
Yeah it was KGB. Just google "64kb san andreas" can't post a link because of the piracy.

technically its not piracy, i used to download some of them for backups, cant be bothered these days, just make sure to put the discs away instead of leaving them lying around

R@tman · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:38

Rich_L said:
Upload it to Live Mesh - 5GB of storage

max file size 50MB

utajoker · 24 Jan 2010 at 20:46

winrar to many files then burn to a couple of discs?

Combat squirrel · 24 Jan 2010 at 21:19

Just trying this KGB archive now, seems legit, compressed 59mb bunch of RAW files down to 21.1kb :O, seems my archive uploading to mozy could now take a new approach ! lol, I Need a MEGA PC though to speed things up.

Wicksta · 24 Jan 2010 at 21:23

dangerstat said:
Standard way to compress it on the Linux side of the house would be to tar it then gzip it.

To clarify slightly tar doesn't compress, it just turns a lot of files into one file and preserves the attributes of them (it's original use was to archive files onto tape - hence the name tar = tape archive).

MagicBoy · 24 Jan 2010 at 21:24

No chance. Burn it to DVD.

Combat squirrel · 24 Jan 2010 at 21:31

MagicBoy said:
No chance. Burn it to DVD.

Likely true, however if the ps3 backup isnt already compressed kgb may do it

theheyes · 24 Jan 2010 at 22:17

Combat squirrel said:
Just trying this KGB archive now, seems legit, compressed 59mb bunch of RAW files down to 21.1kb :O, seems my archive uploading to mozy could now take a new approach ! lol, I Need a MEGA PC though to speed things up.

Have you unpacked it and can confirm it works? I don't buy it. I need more proof.

daelo · 24 Jan 2010 at 23:38

I just tried Kgb on win 7 64 bit, UAC off and ran as administrator, canne get it to work san!

Im interested in how well this program performs, seems like thats your best best op, if you have time on your hands of course

muon · 25 Jan 2010 at 00:02

theheyes said:
Have you unpacked it and can confirm it works? I don't buy it. I need more proof.

And also do a checksum to make sure that the uncompressed file afterwards is actually the same file.

I have a hard time believing this.

JonJ678 · 25 Jan 2010 at 01:37

I'm going to have a play with kgb I think. Curious

It refused to try a debian iso on the basis that it was over 4gb in size, so it's compressing an ubuntu iso. Either the program or wine is refusing to use more than one core, so it's going to take a while. Set it doing the same task in virtualbox, where it also only uses one core. So I now have the stable running in wine racing the beta in virtualbox. I'll report back.

697156 ubuntu-9.10-netbook-remix-i386.iso #original
686476 ubuntu-9.10-netbook-remix-i386.kgb #kgb's effort
688044 ubuntu-9.10-netbook-remix-i386.tar.gz #standard unix effort
688040 ubuntu-9.10-netbook-remix-i386.iso.gz #gzip's best effort

Decompressing it now, it currently looks like the kgb one does marginally better. It took ages and broke the copy of windows it was running in though, explorer keeps crashing when I select an icon. The version in wine is about halfway through the compression. I'm not very impressed.

It decompressed successfully, verified by md5sum. So I suppose that's something.