Hi, (Here's the part where I go on a long story explaining exactly where scenario the question is being asked for. Only later to make a paragraph break summing up the question :) ) Recently (er a few months ago) I got a really nice laptop and wanted to protect it so I backed it up on a external hard drive I barley used. hrmmm I suddenly realize as much as I am enjoying telling this story it really doesn't help. Anyhow long story short I realize how important backups and data redundancy are and want to start doing it for my systems. I thought that a way to put as much back up data on one backup drive would be to compress the files. I then learned that there where to concepts in compressing (or zipping) now much loss there is and how much compression.
Backups are important so of course I want loss less. (is there a better term for that?)
So to sum it up (told you so :) ) what form of loss-less file compression gives me the most compression for a backup (containing files from text to video)