How to use Pigz with Tar

Question

So I am using pigz in tar with

tar --use-compress-program=pigz

and this works but it doesn\'t use all of my processors, and I\'d like to make s

Answer 1

To pass arguments to pigz using -I or --use-compress-program, you can enclose the command and arguments in quotes, like so:

tar --use-compress-program="pigz --best --recursive" -cf archive.tar.gz YourData

Here's a fun option to monitor the speed of the archive creation:

tar --use-compress-program="pigz --best --recursive | pv" -cf archive.tar.gz YourData