How to compress mysqldump output with gzip/bzip2
mysqldump exports MySQL data in SQL format and is commonly used for backups. Normally these backups are not compressed.
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How to check that the Apache compression (gzip, deflate) is working?
Use curl from the command line to check whether Apache compresses data before sending it to clients by inspecting its response headers.