Utilizing multi core for tar+gzip/bzip compression/decompression by admin · 5 December 2013 We have couple options: pigz and pbzip2. tar -c --use-compress-program=pigz -f my_archive.tar.gz /home/archive The other trick useful trick is that you can exclude some directories or files tar -zcvf my_archive.tar.gz --exclude='cache' --exclude='.git' /home/archive Share
