@JeffreyLin formatting your PC?

it depends on what you have installed on your PC, some stuff might be kept in /var/ or /opt/

/var/www would hold any web stuff you might've messed with, /opt is popular for some stuff like media centers and dlna/upnp servers

I doubt there'd be much in it, honestly

7z is a bit easier to extract from I think, as tar.gz is really a two step process

tar.gz is probably better if you want to restore everything to a linux system, 7z is better if you want to use a linux/windows system to recover individual files at random times

though honestly, you can do both with both filetypes

it can, but it needs to ungzip first, then untar. which means you'll need the room for that

@JeffreyLin *.tar.gz overall has better compression and compatibility, *.7z has decent compression and easier on windows

@JeffreyLin a CD? Good luck =p

@JeffreyLin don't do .tar.gz!

A CD is 700 MB... so yeeeeah

You can't access random files in a .tar, you'd need to decompress everything before it

@KevinvanderVelden BUT I CAN DO IT!!!!!!1one

Indeed, but just because you can doesn't mean you should

WOW! AMAZING!

@KevinvanderVelden so that explains why winrar couldn't show me my tar.gz compressed backups of my server

@Ieuan naah, winrar is just terrible

(But yes, I think it's literally $filename$ $attributes and size$ $data$ repeat

@JeffreyLin .7z

Anything but tar

Unless you're writing to actual, physical tape

(Or you always want to extract the entire thing in one go)

The top one

@JeffreyLin average of 182 kilobytes per file

Yes

That factor is right

so I'm not insane, right?

Naah

I'm totally not planning on just making bees for that

Ooh also this site is a thing: beesbeesbees.com