If it doesn't necessarily have to be tar, then I'd recommend using 7zip: archivers/p7zip
It has among the best compression ratios. ________________________________ Von: Fbsd8 <fb...@a1poweruser.com> An: FreeBSD questions <questi...@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? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
