More efficient way to find & tar millions of files

Question

I\'ve got a job running on my server at the command line prompt for a two days now:

find data/ -name filepattern-*2009* -exec tar uf 2009.tar {} ;

Answer 1

Simplest (also remove file after archive creation):

find *.1  -exec tar czf '{}.tgz' '{}' --remove-files \;