diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8a3f8e2..9991ee6 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "structopt",
  "uuid",
+ "zstd",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -121,6 +122,9 @@ name = "cc"
 version = "1.0.73"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2fff2a6927b3bb87f9595d67196a70493f627687a71d87a0d692242c33f58c11"
+dependencies = [
+ "jobserver",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "cfg-if"
@@ -424,6 +428,15 @@ version = "1.0.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "112c678d4050afce233f4f2852bb2eb519230b3cf12f33585275537d7e41578d"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "jobserver"
+version = "0.1.24"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "af25a77299a7f711a01975c35a6a424eb6862092cc2d6c72c4ed6cbc56dfc1fa"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "lazy_static"
 version = "1.4.0"
@@ -1293,3 +1306,32 @@ name = "windows_x86_64_msvc"
 version = "0.36.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c811ca4a8c853ef420abd8592ba53ddbbac90410fab6903b3e79972a631f7680"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd"
+version = "0.11.2+zstd.1.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "20cc960326ece64f010d2d2107537f26dc589a6573a316bd5b1dba685fa5fde4"
+dependencies = [
+ "zstd-safe",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd-safe"
+version = "5.0.2+zstd.1.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1d2a5585e04f9eea4b2a3d1eca508c4dee9592a89ef6f450c11719da0726f4db"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "zstd-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd-sys"
+version = "2.0.1+zstd.1.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9fd07cbbc53846d9145dbffdf6dd09a7a0aa52be46741825f5c97bdd4f73f12b"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 39c8eab..98a24f5 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 structopt = "0.3"
 uuid = { version = "0.8", features = [ "v4"] }
 mimalloc = "0.1.29"
+zstd = "0.11.2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 pretty_assertions = "1.2.1"
diff --git a/src/anonymiser.rs b/src/anonymiser.rs
index 6219483..e4e7a12 100644
--- a/src/anonymiser.rs
+++ b/src/anonymiser.rs
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@ pub fn anonymise(
     input_file: String,
     output_file: String,
     strategy_file: String,
+    compress_output: bool,
     transformer_overrides: TransformerOverrides,
 ) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
     match strategy_file::read(&strategy_file, transformer_overrides) {
         Ok(strategies) => {
-            file_reader::read(input_file, output_file, &strategies)?;
+            file_reader::read(input_file, output_file, &strategies, compress_output)?;
             Ok(())
         }
         Err(_) => {
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@ mod tests {
             "test_files/dump_file.sql".to_string(),
             "test_files/results.sql".to_string(),
             "non_existing_strategy_file.json".to_string(),
+            false,
             TransformerOverrides::none(),
         )
         .is_ok());
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ mod tests {
             "non_existing_input_file.sql".to_string(),
             "test_files/results.sql".to_string(),
             "test_files/strategy.json".to_string(),
+            false,
             TransformerOverrides::none(),
         )
         .is_ok());
@@ -56,6 +59,7 @@ mod tests {
             "test_files/dump_file.sql".to_string(),
             "test_files/results.sql".to_string(),
             "test_files/strategy.json".to_string(),
+            false,
             TransformerOverrides::none(),
         )
         .is_ok());
diff --git a/src/file_reader.rs b/src/file_reader.rs
index ef81c2f..2c28d8b 100644
--- a/src/file_reader.rs
+++ b/src/file_reader.rs
@@ -11,9 +11,13 @@ pub fn read(
     input_file_path: String,
     output_file_path: String,
     strategies: &Strategies,
+    compress_output: bool,
 ) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
-    let output_file = File::create(output_file_path).unwrap();
-    let mut file_writer = BufWriter::new(output_file);
+    let output_file = File::create(output_file_path)?;
+    let mut file_writer: Box<dyn Write> = match compress_output {
+        true => Box::new(zstd::Encoder::new(output_file, 1)?.auto_finish()),
+        false => Box::new(BufWriter::new(output_file)),
+    };
 
     let file_reader = File::open(&input_file_path)
         .unwrap_or_else(|_| panic!("Input file '{}' does not exist", input_file_path));
@@ -26,21 +30,14 @@ pub fn read(
     let mut rng = rng::get();
 
     loop {
-        match reader.read_line(&mut line) {
-            Ok(bytes_read) => {
-                if bytes_read == 0 {
-                    break;
-                }
-
-                let transformed_row =
-                    row_parser::parse(&mut rng, &line, &mut row_parser_state, strategies);
-                file_writer.write_all(transformed_row.as_bytes())?;
-                line.clear();
-            }
-            Err(err) => {
-                return Err(err);
-            }
+        let bytes_read = reader.read_line(&mut line)?;
+        if bytes_read == 0 {
+            break;
         }
+
+        let transformed_row = row_parser::parse(&mut rng, &line, &mut row_parser_state, strategies);
+        file_writer.write_all(transformed_row.as_bytes())?;
+        line.clear();
     }
     Ok(())
 }
@@ -49,14 +46,13 @@ pub fn read(
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
     use crate::parsers::strategy_structs::*;
+    use crate::uncompress::uncompress;
     use pretty_assertions::assert_eq;
     use std::collections::HashMap;
     use std::fs;
+    use std::path::PathBuf;
 
-    #[test]
-    fn can_read() {
-        let input_file = "test_files/dump_file.sql".to_string();
-        let output_file = "test_files/file_reader_test_results.sql".to_string();
+    fn default_strategies() -> Strategies {
         let mut strategies = Strategies::new();
         strategies.insert(
             "public.orders".to_string(),
@@ -90,8 +86,17 @@ mod tests {
                 strategy_tuple("phone_number"),
             ]),
         );
+        strategies
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn can_read() {
+        let input_file = "test_files/dump_file.sql".to_string();
+        let output_file = "test_files/file_reader_test_results.sql".to_string();
+        let _ = fs::remove_file(&output_file).ok();
+        let strategies = default_strategies();
 
-        assert!(read(input_file.clone(), output_file.clone(), &strategies).is_ok());
+        assert!(read(input_file.clone(), output_file.clone(), &strategies, false).is_ok());
 
         let original =
             fs::read_to_string(&input_file).expect("Something went wrong reading the file");
@@ -102,6 +107,40 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(original, processed);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn can_read_and_output_compressed() {
+        let input_file = "test_files/dump_file.sql".to_string();
+        let compressed_file = "test_files/compressed_file_reader_test_results.sql".to_string();
+        let uncompressed_file_name = "test_files/uncompressed_file_reader_test_results.sql";
+
+        let _ = fs::remove_file(&compressed_file);
+        let _ = fs::remove_file(&uncompressed_file_name);
+
+        let strategies = default_strategies();
+
+        assert!(read(
+            input_file.clone(),
+            compressed_file.clone(),
+            &strategies,
+            true
+        )
+        .is_ok());
+
+        uncompress(
+            PathBuf::from(&compressed_file),
+            Some(PathBuf::from(uncompressed_file_name)),
+        )
+        .expect("Should not fail to uncompress!");
+
+        let original =
+            fs::read_to_string(&input_file).expect("Something went wrong reading the file");
+
+        let processed = fs::read_to_string(&uncompressed_file_name)
+            .expect("Something went wrong reading the file");
+
+        assert_eq!(original, processed);
+    }
+
     fn strategy_tuple(column_name: &str) -> (String, ColumnInfo) {
         (
             column_name.to_string(),
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 4f11da3..58df7d1 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 mod anonymiser;
 mod file_reader;
-use std::fmt::Write;
 mod fixer;
 mod opts;
 mod parsers;
+mod uncompress;
+
 use crate::opts::{Anonymiser, Opts};
 use crate::parsers::strategies::Strategies;
 use crate::parsers::strategy_structs::{MissingColumns, SimpleColumn, TransformerOverrides};
 use itertools::Itertools;
 use native_tls::TlsConnector;
 use postgres_native_tls::MakeTlsConnector;
+use std::fmt::Write;
 
 use parsers::{db_schema, strategy_file};
 use structopt::StructOpt;
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
             input_file,
             output_file,
             strategy_file,
+            compress_output,
             allow_potential_pii,
             allow_commercially_sensitive,
         } => {
@@ -39,6 +42,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
                 input_file,
                 output_file,
                 strategy_file,
+                compress_output,
                 transformer_overrides,
             )?
         }
@@ -84,6 +88,10 @@ fn main() -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
                 }
             }
         }
+        Anonymiser::Uncompress {
+            input_file,
+            output_file,
+        } => uncompress::uncompress(input_file, output_file).expect("failed to uncompress"),
     }
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/src/opts.rs b/src/opts.rs
index c987cdb..dba141a 100644
--- a/src/opts.rs
+++ b/src/opts.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
 use structopt::StructOpt;
 #[derive(Debug, StructOpt)]
 #[structopt(name = "Anonymiser", about = "Anonymise your database backups!")]
@@ -16,6 +18,9 @@ pub enum Anonymiser {
         output_file: String,
         #[structopt(short, long, default_value = "./strategy.json")]
         strategy_file: String,
+        /// Compress output using zstd
+        #[structopt(short, long)]
+        compress_output: bool,
         /// Does not transform PotentiallPii data types
         #[structopt(long)]
         allow_potential_pii: bool,
@@ -49,4 +54,13 @@ pub enum Anonymiser {
         #[structopt(short, long, env = "DATABASE_URL")]
         db_url: String,
     },
+    /// Uncompress a zstd sql dump to a file, or stdout if no file specified
+    Uncompress {
+        /// Input file (*.sql.zst)
+        #[structopt(short, long)]
+        input_file: PathBuf,
+        /// Output file, will write to standard output if not specified
+        #[structopt(short, long)]
+        output_file: Option<PathBuf>,
+    },
 }
diff --git a/src/uncompress.rs b/src/uncompress.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9854184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/uncompress.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+use std::fs::File;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+pub fn uncompress(input_file: PathBuf, output_file: Option<PathBuf>) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
+    let input = File::open(input_file)?;
+    match output_file {
+        Some(output) => zstd::stream::copy_decode(input, File::create(output)?),
+        None => zstd::stream::copy_decode(input, std::io::stdout()),
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+    use crate::{anonymiser::anonymise, parsers::strategy_structs::TransformerOverrides};
+
+    use super::uncompress;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn compress_gives_correct_output() {
+        let test_dir_path = PathBuf::from("test_files/compress");
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(&test_dir_path).unwrap();
+
+        anonymise(
+            "test_files/dump_file.sql".to_string(),
+            "test_files/compress/results.sql".to_string(),
+            "test_files/strategy.json".to_string(),
+            false,
+            TransformerOverrides::none(),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        anonymise(
+            "test_files/dump_file.sql".to_string(),
+            "test_files/compress/results.sql.zst".to_string(),
+            "test_files/strategy.json".to_string(),
+            true,
+            TransformerOverrides::none(),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        uncompress(
+            PathBuf::from("test_files/compress/results.sql.zst"),
+            Some(test_dir_path.join("uncompressed.sql")),
+        )
+        .unwrap();
+
+        // Can't compare actual content because of randomization, but # of lines
+        // should be the same
+        assert_eq!(
+            std::fs::read_to_string("test_files/compress/results.sql")
+                .unwrap()
+                .lines()
+                .count(),
+            std::fs::read_to_string("test_files/compress/uncompressed.sql")
+                .unwrap()
+                .lines()
+                .count()
+        );
+
+        std::fs::remove_dir_all(test_dir_path).unwrap();
+    }
+}