On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:15:16PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Dotan, > > On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 16:19 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:08, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > bzip2 will slow down the operation. If you don't really need > > > compressed than simply do "tar cf <tar file> <dir/file list>" > > > Yup, that's what I'm doing now! Thanks. > > Gzip is pretty fast and still should give you decent compression. In > most cases the highest compression will hardly give you better > compression than the default level of 6, so just go with the default > (tar cz). Use bzip2 only if space is a big concern. pigz is a valuable tool for anyone needing gzip compression and having > 1 cpu. It runs multiple (parallel) gzip's for a huge speedup. I've been using it for months - very stable. To use with Gnu tar: "--use-compress-program /usr/local/bin/pigz". Download from: http://pkgs.org/centos-5-rhel-5/rpmforge-i386/pigz-2.1.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm.html Homepage: http://www.zlib.net/pigz/ Review: http://andrew.tumblr.com/post/344920968 -- Charles Polisher