compression tricks for storing terabytes of images?

Posted by Emmanuel Levy on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/compression-tricks-for-storing-terabytes-of-images-tp7584921.html

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Dear All,

I'm wondering if some of you may have suggestions regarding archiving large
image datasets?

So far I've come up to the conclusion that bzip2 is the most convenient
compression solution to use because it's lossless and it works on any type
of data (e.g., tif, stacks) and maintains the metadata.

If anyone knows of good and easy to implement alternatives I'll be very
happy to hear about it.

Thanks,

All the best,

Emmanuel