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> In-Reply-To: <1358477191.42966.YahooMailNeo@web133201.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> References: <50F8B3A3.9080909@a1poweruser.com> <1358477191.42966.YahooMailNeo@web133201.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
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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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