lzma

Inspired by the recent discussion about dd and ISO's, I'm wondering what are your favorite archive formats? * for general purpose archiving of directories and files... Personally, I like .tar.lzma (.tlz) for directories and files at this stage in my life, even if it's Windows EXE's and...

I understand that Compression Algorithms check for redundant Data in Files and then compress them to save space on the Disk, but man, using Ark to compress my Virtual Machines from VirtualBox is so painfully SLOW!!..... :( I think I'll go back to playing Need For Speed, while compressing my...