tar & compression

[Georg Reilinger]

If it doesn't necessarily have to be tar, then I'd recommend using 7zip:

archivers/p7zip

It has among the best compression ratios.




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 Von: Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com>
An: FreeBSD questions <questions at freebsd.org> 
Gesendet: 3:29 Freitag, 18.Januar 2013
Betreff: tar & compression
 
The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip.

Which one is the fastest and compresses the most?
I am using -z option for gzip and it sure is slow.
Hoping one of the other zip options are better.
What do you guys use?

Another question about tar is can I have tar create a compressed bkup
of 2 files and a directory tree all in single tar command?
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