• TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      ZIP files are easier to repair and recover files from, and instead of complicating things with 2 containers, it has a table list of files, plus is the easiest to drag drop files into. 7z is a lot better to use than TAR + *z or whatever else. RAR if you want recovery records.

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      Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that’s what you’re using.