Compression!

skjaeve@totakt:~/phd/data/rutherford_bulk$ ls -s | cat
total 3,9G
4,0K bulk-42m/
779M bulk-42m.7z
1,4G bulk-42m.tar.bz2
1,7G bulk-42m.tar.gz
skjaeve@totakt:~/phd/data/rutherford_bulk$ du -hsc bulk-42m
3,3G bulk-42m
3,3G total


Verdict: 7-zip > tar/bzip2 > tar/gz, both for compression performance and time use.

skjaeve@totakt:~/phd/data/rutherford_bulk$ ls -s | cat total 3,9G 4,0K bulk-42m/ 779M bulk-42m.7z 1,4G bulk-42m.tar.bz2 1,7G bulk-42m.tar.gz skjaeve@totakt:~/phd/data/rutherford_bulk$ du -hsc bulk-42m 3,3G bulk-42m 3,3G total Verdict: 7-zip > tar/bzip2 > tar/gz, both for compression performance and time use.