Recently some of my older publications were accepted and naturally were archived on the Materials Archive. That being said, local copies are also nice to have. The best compression I know of is basically via the Lzma RZIP : 1lrzdir=gprd_sella_bench;\ 2 tar cvf $lrzdir.tar $lrzdir;\ 3 lrzip -Uvvp `nproc`\ 4 -S .lrz -L 9$lrzdir.tar;\ 5 rm -fv $lrzdir.tar;unset lrzdir Which should be decompressed with: 1lrunzip -o - gprd_sella_bench.tar.bzip2-lrz | tar xvf - Though I do hear good things about 7z...
