I’d like to throw in lz4 compression as a ridiculously fast, low CPU alternative while still providing acceptable ratios for the presented use-case. Maybe obvi

I’d like to throw in lz4 compression as a ridiculously fast, low CPU alternative while still providing acceptable ratios for the presented use-case. Maybe obvious for many but still worth mentioning is that on Unix-like systems any external compression can be used by piping to stdout, no need to rely on built-in support. Especially relevant with BSD tar implementations. Example: tar cfv - /path/to/files | lz4 > output.tar.lz4