[Wolves] compression formats

[David Goodwin]

> If anyone knows it would be great. i have a feeling that tar.bz2 is the best 
> but i really ain't sure...


bz2 has the greatest compression, but also takes the longest (more cpu 
required) to extract/compress.

I think there is one better than bz2, but I can't remember it's name.


(tar [TApe aRchiver] is just a way of joining multiple files into one 
single one, which is useful when you're backing up onto tape. It doesn't 
do any compression on it's own but can obviously be combined with e.g. 
gz,bz2 etc)


David.

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