bzip-iddy-doo-dah

A tricky little problem at work (on a Windows server - no suprise there!) was that none of the archival programs that we had access to, such as Winzip for example, would support files larger than 2GB. The one which did, produced a corrupted file when it decompressed the archive.

One download later (a whole 72kb) for bzip2 - a fairly common compression utility on most Linux distributions, it managed to compress the 7GB SQL backup file to 327MB. All in all, a really impressive utility which can handle those large files on Windows or Unix(like) systems!