From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 02:30:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FA1741 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:30:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd8@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C750168C for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:30:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.3] ([173.88.197.103]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:29:55 -0800 Message-ID: <50F8B3A3.9080909@a1poweruser.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:29:55 -0500 From: Fbsd8 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD questions Subject: tar & compression Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jan 2013 02:29:56.0100 (UTC) FILETIME=[B449AC40:01CDF523] X-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-Authenticated-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-EchoSenderHash: [fbsd8]-[a1poweruser*com] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:30:00 -0000 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?