May 2022

But we have so much more data to store, and the world over people are accessing cloud storage and streaming services. At the time of writing, the DEFLATE algorithm is nearly three decades old. Three decades ago data storage costs were high and transmission speeds were slow. The Tar File Archiving Utility The FileInfo.com team

Unlike using Gzip to compress individual files, creating a Tar archive compressed by Gzip will not lead to the removal of the files we include in it. Tar and Gzip are popular Linux system utilities for file compression and archiving. Although both tools are usually used together, Tar and Gzip perform different tasks. The name of the GZ file you’re