tar & compression

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:46:31 +0100, Georg Reilinger  
<georgreilinger at yahoo.de> 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.

It doesn't archive permissions.

I guess the best compression ratio to pack and unpack time ratio is tar.gz  
if it's needed to archive the permissions too.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/443063