Title: [Plugin: BackWPup] Feature request: Gzip support
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: BackWPup] Feature request: Gzip support

 *  [Andrew Ensley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awensley/)
 * (@awensley)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backwpup-feature-request-gzip-support/)
 * Thank you for this great plugin.
 * I have a feature request: Could you offer the option of putting backup files 
   into [Gzip](http://www.gzip.org/) archives? The compression is much better than.
   zip files.
 * If not, that’s ok. This is still the best backup plugin for WordPress. =)
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backwpup/)

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 *  [dgw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voyagerfan5761/)
 * (@voyagerfan5761)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backwpup-feature-request-gzip-support/#post-1224444)
 * Agreed. More compression options would be awesome.
 * And yes, I think I will replace my old backup plugin (WP DBC) with this one, 
   since it includes the files too. Now if only I could think of an alternate FTP
   server to save to, to guard against DreamHost’s weaseling out of any responsibility
   for my data…
 *  [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * (@danielhuesken)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backwpup-feature-request-gzip-support/#post-1224479)
 * good news for you….
    backwpup now supports (in dev. version) tar.gz and tar and
   tar.bz2 Archives.
 * PLease test the development Version and give feadback.

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Daniel Hüsken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielhuesken/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-backwpup-feature-request-gzip-support/#post-1224479)
 * Status: not resolved

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