I have a bunch of small files on my server (backups created by rsnapshot) that i dont want to delete yet, but its slowing down my storage, especially during scrub tasks. I was thinking about compressing them, so i went for .zst.tar, but I ended up with a file that has 60 GB, contains millions of files and cannot be browsed by a filemanager like Midnight Commander or Total Commander (via a network share) as it looks like it has to be extracted first.
What other format would be more suitable, so in case I would looking for a file from the archive I could browse it and extract the single file from it. I don't really care bout compression ratio, but it would nice to have something better than plain .tar
In the meantime I have moved to restic based backups, but this is a leftover I don't want to delete yet.