Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:29:55 -0500 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: tar & compression Message-ID: <50F8B3A3.9080909@a1poweruser.com>
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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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