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diff --git a/docs/man/borg-compression.1 b/docs/man/borg-compression.1 index 274aa86ed..db5e60009 100644 --- a/docs/man/borg-compression.1 +++ b/docs/man/borg-compression.1 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ level margin: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .\" new: \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]] .in \\n[rst2man-indent\\n[rst2man-indent-level]]u .. -.TH "BORG-COMPRESSION" 1 "2022-02-19" "" "borg backup tool" +.TH "BORG-COMPRESSION" 1 "2022-06-05" "" "borg backup tool" .SH NAME borg-compression \- Details regarding compression .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -53,20 +53,20 @@ Do not compress. Use lz4 compression. Very high speed, very low compression. (default) .TP .B zstd[,L] -Use zstd ("zstandard") compression, a modern wide\-range algorithm. +Use zstd (\(dqzstandard\(dq) compression, a modern wide\-range algorithm. If you do not explicitly give the compression level L (ranging from 1 to 22), it will use level 3. Archives compressed with zstd are not compatible with borg < 1.1.4. .TP .B zlib[,L] -Use zlib ("gz") compression. Medium speed, medium compression. +Use zlib (\(dqgz\(dq) compression. Medium speed, medium compression. If you do not explicitly give the compression level L (ranging from 0 to 9), it will use level 6. -Giving level 0 (means "no compression", but still has zlib protocol -overhead) is usually pointless, you better use "none" compression. +Giving level 0 (means \(dqno compression\(dq, but still has zlib protocol +overhead) is usually pointless, you better use \(dqnone\(dq compression. .TP .B lzma[,L] -Use lzma ("xz") compression. Low speed, high compression. +Use lzma (\(dqxz\(dq) compression. Low speed, high compression. If you do not explicitly give the compression level L (ranging from 0 to 9), it will use level 6. Giving levels above 6 is pointless and counterproductive because it does @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ lots of CPU cycles and RAM. .B auto,C[,L] Use a built\-in heuristic to decide per chunk whether to compress or not. The heuristic tries with lz4 whether the data is compressible. -For incompressible data, it will not use compression (uses "none"). +For incompressible data, it will not use compression (uses \(dqnone\(dq). For compressible data, it uses the given C[,L] compression \- with C[,L] being any valid compression specifier. .TP |