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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:59:39 +0100
From:      "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com>
To:        "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tar & compression
Message-ID:  <op.wq26lpz6uwjkcr@freebsd>
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:46:31 +0100, Georg Reilinger  
<georgreilinger@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



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