lzma compression in parallel

pxz: parallel LZMA compressor using liblzma

Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of running LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple cores and processors simultaneously. Its primary goal is to utilize all resources to speed up compression time with minimal possible influence on compression ratio.

Installation on Debian

sudo apt-get install pxz

Running with tar

tar -I pxz -cvf archive.tar.xz stuff_to_compress