On Freitag 19 Juni 2009 torrez wrote:
> time tar -czf /pbo/podbackuprecovery/tars/pod-backup-$
> {CURRDATE}.tar.gz /pbo/pod > /pbo/podbackuprecovery/pitr_logs/backup-
> tar-log-${CURRDATE}.log 2>&1

If you have a multi-core/multi-CPU machine, try to used pbzip2 (parallel 
bzip2), which can use all CPU cores at the same time for compression.
The simplest might be
tar cf backup.tar ..... (first the tar without compression to finish 
quickly)
pbzip2 backup.tar

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