tar & compression

Fbsd8 fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com
Fri Jan 18 02:53:11 UTC 2013


Georg Reilinger wrote:
> If it doesn't necessarily have to be tar, then I'd recommend using 7zip:
> 
> archivers/p7zip
> 
> It has among the best compression ratios.
> 
> 
> 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?
> 

Sorry,that will not work for me.
Has to be something that comes as part of the base system.


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