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    3 hours ago

    The pixz compressor provides parallized compression/decompression (desirable on modern CPUs), uses LZMA (like 7zip or xz), and provides indexed access when used as tar's compressor. The last of these is what you want.

    https://github.com/vasi/pixz

    $ tar cvf foo.tar.pixz -Ipixz foo/
    

    pixz is packaged in Debian-family distros.