Compression tools Compared

[Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo]

Where is the linux version of 7-zip ?

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Tom Wilson escribi?:
> On Saturday 13 August 2005 12:58 am, Jerry McBride wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>>The two mentioned compression tools work pretty much like gzip. You tar up
>>your files, pipe to the compression filter and then on to the target file.
>>Below is a small example of what I've been seeing here at the shack.
>>
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 12359680 Aug 12 23:57 backup.tar
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3536665 Aug 13 00:01 backup.tar.7z
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4438465 Aug 13 00:08 backup.tar.bz2
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4747637 Aug 13 00:03 backup.tar.gz
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2731412 Aug 13 00:10 backup.tar.lzma
>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root  5125474 Aug 13 00:16 backup.tar.lzop
>>
>>What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo powered
>>laptop. I've not bothered with timing the processes as the better
>>compression rates are at the cost of speed and memory usage. Not good for
>>"while you wait" processing, but just plain perfect for backups and
>>what-have-you on servers... One side note, 7za does not record user/group
>>info... It's a shame too as this make it pretty much useless in most linux
>>backup scenarios. This lzma creature is simply awesome.
>>
>>You can find it at: http://martinus.geekisp.com/rublog.cgi/Projects/LZMA
>>
>>Cheers all....
> 
> 
> The 7z and LZMA are the from the 7-zip compression program.  I love this zip 
> program!  I use it on winders and linux.  I found it one day when I was sick 
> of messing with winzip on a lusers desktop at work.  Now 7-zip is on all the 
> desktops and my personal machines too.
> 
> --
> Tom Wilson
> 
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