Pigz - Shortening backup times with parallel gzip
While searching for a completely different piece of software I stumbled on to the pigz application, a parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machines. As some of our backups have a gzip step to conserve some space I decided to see if pigz could be useful in speeding them up.
Using remarkably unscientific means (I just wanted to know if it’s worth further investigation) I ran a couple of sample compression runs.
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