GZip database backup file

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Feature request from mc388, posted on GitHub Mar 09, 2016

Thanks for fixing the issue #2915 but would it even better if you realy gzip the database backup file to minimize the file size? If you hold >10 backups of a big database you waste disk storage and it is faster to transfer the backup to an other location.

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Comment from daim2k5, posted on GitHub Mar 09, 2016

Did you really think magento need to handle all the difficult backup topic? The next step is what happend if your Database ist 6-10 GB big ;-)

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Comment from mc388, posted on GitHub Mar 10, 2016

Magento don't need to handle all difficult backup topics but a text file is a great example for compress.

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Comment from mazhalai, posted on GitHub Mar 23, 2016

@mc388 @daim2k5 we have created MAGETWO-50844 to fix this issue.

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Comment from piotrekkaminski, posted on GitHub Jun 20, 2016

You should avoid using Magento backups and use proper system level database and file backup. Text database backups are hard to restore (time consuming) and should not be used in production environment.