Timeline for Compress a large folder tree while keeping an easy way to navigate and extract particular files
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| Aug 1, 2019 at 11:47 | comment | added | Tim Kennedy | that is accurate, and that's why i mentioned listing the contents once and saving it to a text file. OP mentioned that it would likely be accessed very infrequently, though, and he didn't mention how big it was, and tar is a very tried and true for long term storage of archives. I don't have the same confidence in 7z for long term archival (just from personal experience). | |
| Aug 1, 2019 at 1:39 | comment | added | user1133275 | But tar is slow O(n) and 7z is fast O(1) for content listing. (see example in my answer) | |
| Jul 31, 2019 at 19:49 | history | answered | Tim Kennedy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |