Tar an gzip together, but the other way round?
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Gzipping a tar file as whole is drop dead easy and even implemented as option inside tar
. So far, so good. However, from an archiver's point of view, it would be better to tar the gzipped single files. (The rationale behind it is, that data loss is minified, if there is a single corrupt gzipped file, than if your whole tarball is corrupted due to gzip or copy errors.)
Has anyone experience with this? Are there drawbacks? Are there more solid/tested solutions for this than
find folder -exec gzip '{}' \;
tar cf folder.tar folder
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