I use it for some backups (not automatic ones, just when I have some old stuff and I want to put it "in the corner"). Very good compression ratio (beats bz2 and

I use it for some backups (not automatic ones, just when I have some old stuff and I want to put it "in the corner"). Very good compression ratio (beats bz2 and lzma in my cases - big parts are db dumps), but when achieving it, it's also very slow. Be careful when feeding whole directories to it since it doesn't care about files attributes.