[clamav-users] Virus database in tarball

2011-06-24 Thread Sergey
Hello. Whether to place the virus database in tarball ? It become obsolete very quickly and take up space. Update is required after installation in any case. -- Regards, Sergey ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.ne

Re: [clamav-users] Virus database in tarball

2011-06-24 Thread Al Varnell
On 6/24/11 2:09 AM, "Sergey" wrote: > Whether to place the virus database in tarball ? It become obsolete > very quickly and take up space. Update is required after installation > in any case. > Yes, but it doesn't take as long or as much bandwidth to incrementally update it as it does to downloa

Re: [clamav-users] Virus database in tarball

2011-06-24 Thread Sergey
On Friday, June 24, 2011, Al Varnell wrote: > Yes, but it doesn't take as long or as much bandwidth to incrementally > update it as it does to download the entire database every time there > is an update. Why? Old base may remain after update. User can do it. -- Regards, Sergey

Re: [clamav-users] Virus database in tarball

2011-06-24 Thread aCaB
On 06/24/11 11:09, Sergey wrote: > Whether to place the virus database in tarball ? It become obsolete > very quickly and take up space. Update is required after installation > in any case. Hi Sergey, this has been discussed many times already. Rationale is: shipping the db in the tarball helps

Re: [clamav-users] Virus database in tarball

2011-06-24 Thread Sergey
On Friday, June 24, 2011, aCaB wrote: > Rationale is: shipping the db in the tarball helps a lot in reducing > load and bw usage on our mirrors (which are provided for free to all > our userbase) and still allows for quick incremental updates. Is it statisc or opinion ? I thought about it. Use