I want to compress a web tree to copy to another system whilst leaving the
original tree unaltered,
do I need to 1st tar it and then gzip it, or is there a single step
solution ?

I tried bzip2 as per RedHat docs, but it seems RH docs differ from what
bzip2 does:

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You can use bzip2 to compress multiple files and directories at the same
time by listing them with a space between each one:

bzip2 filename.bz2 file1 file2 file3 /usr/work/school

The above command compresses file1, file2, file3, and the contents of the
/usr/work/school directory (assuming this directory exists) and places
them in a file named filename.bz2.
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