diff --git a/roles/build-containers/tasks/post.yaml b/roles/build-containers/tasks/post.yaml
index aa9433c84..770b46867 100644
--- a/roles/build-containers/tasks/post.yaml
+++ b/roles/build-containers/tasks/post.yaml
@@ -20,22 +20,10 @@
     rsync -var --no-links /etc/containers/ {{ workspace }}/etc/containers/ || true
     rsync -var --no-links --include 'yum.repos.d/***' --include 'yum.conf' --include 'dnf/***' --exclude='*' /etc/ {{ workspace }}/etc/ || true
 
-    gzip -r "{{ workspace }}/logs"  "{{ workspace }}/conf" "{{ workspace }}/etc"
     chmod -R a+r "{{ workspace }}"
     chown -R {{ ansible_user }}: "{{ workspace }}"
   changed_when: true
 
-- name: Rename compressed text based files to end with txt.gz extension
-  become: true
-  shell: >
-    set -o pipefail &&
-    find {{ workspace }}/logs {{ workspace }}/conf {{ workspace }}/etc -type f |
-    awk 'function rename(orig)
-    { new=orig; sub(/\.gz$/, ".txt.gz", new); system("mv " orig " " new) }
-    /\.(conf|ini|json|sh|log|yaml|yml|repo|cfg|j2|py)\.gz$/ { rename($0) }
-    /(\/logs\/|\/etc\/)[^ \/\.]+\.gz$/ { rename($0) }';
-  changed_when: true
-
 - name: Copy files from {{ ansible_user_dir }}/workspace/ on node
   no_log: true
   synchronize:
diff --git a/roles/run-test/templates/common_vars.bash.j2 b/roles/run-test/templates/common_vars.bash.j2
index 6dc2e8b4d..4f1b0bde1 100644
--- a/roles/run-test/templates/common_vars.bash.j2
+++ b/roles/run-test/templates/common_vars.bash.j2
@@ -54,4 +54,4 @@ SSH_OPTIONS='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogL
 
 # NOTE(pabelanger): this logic should be inverted to only include what developers need, not exclude things on the filesystem.
 TARCMD="sudo XZ_OPT=-3 tar -cJf - --exclude=var/log/journal --exclude=udev/hwdb.bin --exclude=etc/puppet/modules --exclude=etc/project-config --exclude=etc/services --exclude=selinux/targeted --exclude=etc/services --exclude=etc/pki /var/log /etc"
-JLOGCMD="sudo journalctl --output short-precise | gzip -c | sudo dd of=/var/log/journal-text.txt.gz"
+JLOGCMD="sudo journalctl --output short-precise | sudo dd of=/var/log/journal-text.txt"
diff --git a/roles/run-test/templates/oooq_common_functions.sh.j2 b/roles/run-test/templates/oooq_common_functions.sh.j2
index d052924f5..73add90b1 100644
--- a/roles/run-test/templates/oooq_common_functions.sh.j2
+++ b/roles/run-test/templates/oooq_common_functions.sh.j2
@@ -98,12 +98,10 @@ source $LOCAL_WORKING_DIR/bin/activate
 set -u
 source $OOOQ_DIR/ansible_ssh_env.sh
 
-sudo unbound-control dump_cache > /tmp/dns_cache.txt
-sudo chown {{ ansible_user_id }}: /tmp/dns_cache.txt
-cat /tmp/dns_cache.txt | gzip - > $LOGS_DIR/dns_cache.txt.gz
+sudo unbound-control dump_cache > $LOGS_DIR/dns_cache.txt
 
 mkdir -p $LOGS_DIR/quickstart_files
-find $LOCAL_WORKING_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -name "*sqlite" | while read i; do gzip -cf \$i > $LOGS_DIR/quickstart_files/\$(basename \$i).txt.gz; done
+find $LOCAL_WORKING_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -name "*sqlite" | while read i; do cp -l \$i $LOGS_DIR/quickstart_files/\$(basename \$i); done
 
 $QUICKSTART_COLLECTLOGS_CMD  > $LOGS_DIR/quickstart_collect_logs.log || \
     echo "WARNING: quickstart collect-logs failed, check quickstart_collectlogs.log for details"
diff --git a/scripts/common_vars.bash b/scripts/common_vars.bash
index cad320216..ee1c0b27d 100644
--- a/scripts/common_vars.bash
+++ b/scripts/common_vars.bash
@@ -54,4 +54,4 @@ SSH_OPTIONS='-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogL
 
 # NOTE(pabelanger): this logic should be inverted to only include what developers need, not exclude things on the filesystem.
 TARCMD="sudo XZ_OPT=-3 tar -cJf - --exclude=var/log/journal --exclude=udev/hwdb.bin --exclude=etc/puppet/modules --exclude=etc/project-config --exclude=etc/services --exclude=selinux/targeted --exclude=etc/services --exclude=etc/pki /var/log /etc"
-JLOGCMD="sudo journalctl --output short-precise | gzip -c | sudo dd of=/var/log/journal-text.txt.gz"
+JLOGCMD="sudo journalctl --output short-precise | sudo dd of=/var/log/journal-text.txt"
diff --git a/scripts/te-broker/destroy-env b/scripts/te-broker/destroy-env
index 2958565f4..54b793b1f 100755
--- a/scripts/te-broker/destroy-env
+++ b/scripts/te-broker/destroy-env
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ nova console-log bmc-${ENVNUM} | tail -n 100 | awk -v envnum="$ENVNUM" '$0=envnu
 
 # Save all the consoles in the stack to a dedicated directory, stripping out ANSI color codes.
 for server in $(openstack server list -f value -c Name | grep baremetal-${ENVNUM}) bmc-$ENVNUM ; do
-    openstack console log show $server | sed 's/\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]//g' | gzip > $CONSOLE_LOG_PATH/$server-console.log.gz || true
+    openstack console log show $server | sed 's/\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]//g' > $CONSOLE_LOG_PATH/$server-console.log || true
 done
 
 
diff --git a/toci_quickstart.sh b/toci_quickstart.sh
index 61b2adb22..a7ebb93fd 100755
--- a/toci_quickstart.sh
+++ b/toci_quickstart.sh
@@ -185,15 +185,13 @@ fi
 
 popd
 
-sudo unbound-control dump_cache > /tmp/dns_cache.txt
-sudo chown ${USER}: /tmp/dns_cache.txt
-cat /tmp/dns_cache.txt | gzip - > $LOGS_DIR/dns_cache.txt.gz
+sudo unbound-control dump_cache > $LOGS_DIR/dns_cache.txt
 
 if [[ "$PERIODIC" == 1 && -e $WORKSPACE/hash_info.sh ]] ; then
     echo export JOB_EXIT_VALUE=$exit_value >> $WORKSPACE/hash_info.sh
 fi
 
 mkdir -p $LOGS_DIR/quickstart_files
-find $LOCAL_WORKING_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -name "*sqlite" | while read i; do gzip -cf $i > $LOGS_DIR/quickstart_files/$(basename $i).txt.gz; done
+find $LOCAL_WORKING_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -name "*sqlite" | while read i; do cp -l $i $LOGS_DIR/quickstart_files/$(basename $i); done
 echo 'Quickstart completed.'
 exit $exit_value