No it's not. Lzip is more useful for storing text long term, or send very large text file as email attachments. Text log file and database dump in text usually

No it's not. Lzip is more useful for storing text long term, or send very large text file as email attachments. Text log file and database dump in text usually generate very large text file, lzip can reduce their size by a factor of 5 to 10, compared to gzips.