sdesc: "Very fast Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer packer" ldesc: "A file compressor which is very similar to gzip. lzop uses the LZO data compression library for compression services, and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed (at the cost of some compression ratio). On modern systems, when making backups of terabyte of data, lzop is usually IO-bound and not CPU-bound, which means that you can both decrease storage requirements and effectively reduce backup time by quite an amount." category: Archive