Description
Multi-threaded (parallel) tar.bz2 archiving of a directory with lowest priority CPU and I/O scheduling. Utilizes all cpu cores and detaches into background, will syslog when it’s done.
Installation Instructions
Fedora:
dnf copr enable chotaire/parazip
dnf install parazip
CentOS / RHEL:
yum install yum-plugin-copr
yum copr enable chotaire/parazip
yum install parazip
These repositories are maintained, they will receive updates on each new stable release. If you find any issues, please contribute at Github.
Demo
Syntax
Usage: parazip [-V|--(no-)verbose] [-F|--(no-)foreground] [-S|--(no-)syslog]
[-M|--(no-)message] [-v|--version] [-I|--install] <source-dir> [<dest-dir>]
<source-dir> Source directory (single mandatory option)
<dest-dir> Destination directory (default: '.')
-V,--verbose,--no-verbose Display more verbose output (off by default)
-F,--foreground,--no-foreground No detaching into background (off by default)
-S,--syslog,--no-syslog Log start/end time to syslog (off by default)
-M,--message,--no-message Send tty msg upon completion (off by default)
-I,--install: Check for and install software dependencies
-h,--help: Prints this help
-v,--version: Prints version
You need to pass at least one argument (the 'source-dir' to be archived).
Active Releases
The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).
Release | Architectures | Repo Download |
---|---|---|
Centos-stream 8 | ppc64le (0)*, x86_64 (2)* | Centos-stream 8 (52 downloads) |
EPEL 6 | i386 (1)*, x86_64 (2)* | EPEL 6 (0 downloads) |
EPEL 7 | ppc64le (0)*, x86_64 (1)* | EPEL 7 (63 downloads) |
EPEL 8 | ppc64le (0)*, x86_64 (7)* | EPEL 8 (67 downloads) |
Fedora 38 | i386 (2)*, ppc64le (0)*, x86_64 (2)* | Fedora 38 (0 downloads) |
Fedora 39 | i386 (2)*, ppc64le (0)*, x86_64 (2)* | Fedora 39 (20 downloads) |
Fedora 40 | i386 (2)*, ppc64le (0)*, x86_64 (2)* | Fedora 40 (15 downloads) |
Fedora 41 | i386 (0)*, ppc64le (0)*, x86_64 (0)* | Fedora 41 (7 downloads) |
Fedora rawhide | i386 (2)*, ppc64le (0)*, x86_64 (3)* | Fedora rawhide (60 downloads) |
* Total number of downloaded packages.
Quick Enable
#> dnf copr enable chotaire/parazip
More info about enabling Copr repositories