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    For what it's worth, compression operations like lzip on a stream of data are much faster than file-system operations like tar. Unless you have an ancient UNIX box based on an early Sparc or Motorola 68020 chip. Commented Jan 3, 2020 at 12:48
  • @O. Jones: I doubt xz at maximum compression would be faster than an SSD. Commented Jan 3, 2020 at 23:14
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    @O.Jones If you compress with maximum option values possible (e.g: lzip -s256MiB -m273) it shall take a very long time. Commented Jan 4, 2020 at 14:12