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		Crespyl on Oct 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving Tar is not a compressed format. This is why it's usually paired with gzip or xz.

Paul_S on Oct 24, 2016 [–]

I know it's not a compression format. My point is most formats that you put in tars are already compressed! Jpgs - compressed, RAWs - already compressed, any text format that isn't a plain-text file - already compressed. Compressing compressed formats is hardly worth it.

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