Comments on: Howto: Linux compress / decompress files with Tar http://www.vincentwong.net/howto-linux-compress-tar εΊŸζŸ΄εŒη›Ÿ 2.0 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:55:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: admin http://www.vincentwong.net/howto-linux-compress-tar#comment-11 admin Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:42:39 +0000 http://www.vincentwong.net/howto-linux-compress-tar#comment-11 wow.. great sharing.. Bzip2 is much better, but slower then gzip. but bz2 will be better when you do some regular backup, save more space if you do your achieve. Thanks. wow.. great sharing..
Bzip2 is much better, but slower then gzip. but bz2 will be better when you do some regular backup, save more space if you do your achieve.
Thanks.

]]> By: lhseong http://www.vincentwong.net/howto-linux-compress-tar#comment-10 lhseong Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:16:36 +0000 http://www.vincentwong.net/howto-linux-compress-tar#comment-10 you also can use j to replace z, which is bzip2 with gzip. Bzip2 has greater compression compare to gzip tar -cjvf filename.tar.bz2 /var/www/ tar -xjvf filename.tar.bz2 /var/www/ you also can use j to replace z, which is bzip2 with gzip. Bzip2 has greater compression compare to gzip

tar -cjvf filename.tar.bz2 /var/www/
tar -xjvf filename.tar.bz2 /var/www/

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