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Created February 13, 2017 06:57
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Multithreading gzip Compress using pigz
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# http://stackoverflow.com/a/12320421
# -9 for better compression
# 32 is number of cores to use
tar cf - paths-to-archive | pigz -9 -p 16 > archive.tar.gz
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