I stopped doing that because I found it painfully slow. And it was quicker to gzip and upload than to bzip2 and upload.
Of course, my hardware wasn’t quite as good back then. I also learned to stop adding ‘v’ flag because the bottleneck was actually stdout! (At least when extracting).
tar cvjf compressed-shit.tar.bz2 /path/to/uncompressed/shit/
Only way to fly.
I stopped doing that because I found it painfully slow. And it was quicker to gzip and upload than to bzip2 and upload.
Of course, my hardware wasn’t quite as good back then. I also learned to stop adding ‘v’ flag because the bottleneck was actually stdout! (At least when extracting).
for the last 14 years of my career, I was using stupidly overpowered Oracle exadata systems exclusively, so “slow” meant 3 seconds instead of 1.
Now that I’m retired, I pretty much never need to compress anything.
I’m curious about the contents in your compressed shit.