Thanks Nathan, I'm testing it right now, I'll post some feedback.

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2012/12/5 Nathan Rajlich <[email protected]>

> Well you could use node-tar[0] to create a tarball of the directory,
> and then use the zlib[1] module to compress the tarball using gzip.
> Essentially creating a .tar.gz in the end.
>
> [0]: https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar
> [1]: http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/zlib.html
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Alan Hoffmeister
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello there,
> >
> > I'm working on a backup tool using Node.js, but I couldn't find any
> native
> > package that work with hight compression algos and folder compression.
> >
> > I need this because the script will run on Windows and Unix systems.
> > My preferences are xz (isn't it the official name for lzma2?), lzma,
> bzip2
> > and gzip.
> >
> > Thanks!
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