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Re: compressor



On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 21:40 +0800, lina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Basically which compressor is the most efficient one.
> 
> I got 2T data, basically won't get a chance to use in future, but still
> need to keep there at least for the next two years just in case.
> 
> so I tried the xz, but xz not support the directory? or maybe I don't
> know how to compress the directory.
> 
> now tried the .bz2, but still very large.
> 
> Thanks ahead for any suggestions,
> 
> Best regards,

AFAIK 7z does best compression, but IIRC without keeping Linux
permissions.

Regards,
Ralf

PS: "Compressor" is an audio engineering term too :D. So the other
answer is "Jamin", not helpful regarding to the context.


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