On Wednesday 22,August,2012 09:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 21:40 +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Basically which compressor is the most efficient one. >> >> I got 2T data, basically won't get a chance to use in future, but still >> need to keep there at least for the next two years just in case. >> >> so I tried the xz, but xz not support the directory? or maybe I don't >> know how to compress the directory. >> >> now tried the .bz2, but still very large. >> >> Thanks ahead for any suggestions, >> >> Best regards, > > AFAIK 7z does best compression, but IIRC without keeping Linux > permissions.
Thanks. > > Regards, > Ralf > > PS: "Compressor" is an audio engineering term too :D. So the other > answer is "Jamin", not helpful regarding to the context. P.P.S. I noticed the discussion in another threads, about funny and misbehavior and etc. I must confess here that I am not the very loyal reader of those emails, but here I just wanna say one thing or two, in the past, some witty conversation/jokes really made, I think, not merely my days, but also many other people's days, I laughed even I didn't say anything at that time and I think the funny things definitely bring some special flavors to the list. Thanks with best regards, > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5034e9f0.80...@gmail.com