From e9febc5de3f96bad8f517c0c98f34a8227c23a6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Cyryl=20P=C5=82otnicki?= <cyplo@cyplo.net>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 14:51:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add large files compression script

---
 tools/compress-large-dir | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 tools/compress-large-dir

diff --git a/tools/compress-large-dir b/tools/compress-large-dir
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..026549ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/compress-large-dir
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -eo pipefail
+
+if [ -z $1 ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 dir"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+dir="${1%/*}"
+
+if [ ! -e $dir ]; then
+  echo "$dir doesn't exist"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+benice tar -cf - $dir | pv -ptabI -s $(du -sb $dir | awk '{print $1}') | pixz -9 > $dir.tar.xz