High-level compression

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XZ providers higher compression rate than gzip by sacrificing compression speed. Which is suitable for long-term archiving

Compress

XZ_OPT="-e9 -T0" tar cJvf compressed.xz dir/
  • -e9 means compression level at level 9 extreme (man xz for more details in manual)
  • -T0 means compress by using all threads on CPU

Decompress

tar -xvzf compressed.xz