For personal stuff I haven't compressed an archive in a while. I just copy the containing folder to an external drive and a cloud storage if it's really importa

For personal stuff I haven't compressed an archive in a while. I just copy the containing folder to an external drive and a cloud storage if it's really important. Everything I really really want archived is less than 1TB already. That fits on an external drive and cheap cloud storage subscription. If I need to send something I'll use zip for personal stuff or tar.gz at work because I know everyone is using some kind of Linux and it's the only terminal zip command I have memorized.