Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:46:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Georg Reilinger <georgreilinger@yahoo.de> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: tar & compression Message-ID: <1358477191.42966.YahooMailNeo@web133201.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <50F8B3A3.9080909@a1poweruser.com> References: <50F8B3A3.9080909@a1poweruser.com>
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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 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> An: FreeBSD questions <questions@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-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 02:53:11 2013 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 13F68D96 for <questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:53:11 +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 F0997799 for <questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:53:10 +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 18:53:12 -0800 Message-ID: <50F8B917.1090401@a1poweruser.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:53:11 -0500 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Georg Reilinger <georgreilinger@yahoo.de> Subject: Re: tar & compression References: <50F8B3A3.9080909@a1poweruser.com> <1358477191.42966.YahooMailNeo@web133201.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1358477191.42966.YahooMailNeo@web133201.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jan 2013 02:53:12.0284 (UTC) FILETIME=[F47A71C0:01CDF526] X-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-Authenticated-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com X-EchoSenderHash: [fbsd8]-[a1poweruser*com] Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:53:11 -0000 Georg Reilinger 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. > > > 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? > Sorry,that will not work for me. Has to be something that comes as part of the base system.
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