cPanel Full Backup compressed by Winrar is almost twice the size of the original .gz

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I downloaded a cPanel full backup from my shared host (backup-4.23.2019_20-34-30_username.tar.gz). The original file size is 3 Gb

To see if I could get a bigger compression, I unzipped everything to a folder and compressed with Winrar, using what would theoretically be the best compression: RAR4, compression "Best" and "solid archive".

To my surprise, the final size was over 5Gb! How is this possible?

Rogério Dec

Posted 2019-04-24T07:38:12.300

Reputation: 316

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