Re: A better backup (was: Re: Question re: splitting files)
On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 08:25:01AM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> hermit@BayView.COM (William R. Ward) writes:
>
> > Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> writes:
> > > % tar xvMf /dev/fd0
> > >
> > > Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble
> > > with this.
> >
> > Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!)....
> >
> > --Bill.
>
> Well, this would be fine if tar would accept both the z and M options
> at the same time; unfortunately, it won't. (at least the version of
> tar in bo won't)
>
> Also, a one-bit error can ruin all files recorded after the error -
> not a great idea. I really am surprised that there's no standard
> backup method for debian that:
> 1) backs up across multiple volumes
> 2) provides checksums for each file, and
> 3) allows compression on a file-by-file basis (i.e. allows creation of
> an uncompressed archive of compressed files, which is less susceptible
> to corruption than a compressed archive of uncompressed files)
Take a look at the 'afio' package.
Adam Klein
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