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Parallel Gzip

Lzop use to be my favorite fast compression program. That is until I learned about parallels gzip (pigz) Compress a Folder # compress a folder called “myfolder” at maximum compression using six threads tar cf – myfolder | pigz -9…

Using lzop on Windows

I wanted a fast way to backup an AppDynamics MySQL database directory on windows. The answer was lzop. Tools GoW 0.8.0 (GNU on Windows) lzop for Windows Setup Set your Enviornment PATH After installing GoW and extracting lzop.exe set your…