No. This is just my 300 Mb development filesystem, which contains all my developments. Full backups are easier for that smaller size. I should now extend to 600 Mb.
Smaller size was advantage while I did CD backups. Now DVD backups makes possible bigger backups.
Performance doesn't matter locally on my offline Win system, but does on the online Linux system.
On the online webservers, people usually have limited space, so some ZIP compressing would be still valid.
I do prefer ZIP over TAR.GZ, so ZIP is te keyword. The ZIP is easier to use on Win, also usable under Unix. As for permissions under Unix, there could be an index file, which contains additional info about each file, including permission, description, etc...
For both upgrades and backups ZIP compression would be necessary (or at least for backups).
I use Archive::Zip for such tasks. Well usable, tough early versions had some bugs.
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