chotaire/parazip

Project ID: 23801

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 (8)	Centos-stream 8 (87 downloads)
EPEL 7	ppc64le (0), x86_64 (2)	EPEL 7 (100 downloads)
EPEL 8	ppc64le (0), x86_64 (9)	EPEL 8 (94 downloads)
Fedora 41	i386 (8), ppc64le (0), x86_64 (5)*	Fedora 41 (40 downloads)
Fedora 42	i386 (6), ppc64le (0), x86_64 (6)*	Fedora 42 (31 downloads)
Fedora 43	i386 (0), ppc64le (0), x86_64 (2)*	Fedora 43 (17 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	i386 (6), ppc64le (0), x86_64 (6)*	Fedora rawhide (92 downloads)