On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:04:53AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Andrew McRobert" <mcrobert@central.murdoch.edu.au> writes: > > I have to say that i find that "tar" covers all bases pretty well ... > > depends what you're used to I guess. > > There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you > don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses > globally, which means that the whole of the archive is considered one > big compressed file. If something happens to the beginning of the tape > you wouldn't be able to recover any of the data on that tape. This is > in contrast to something like afio which compresses a single file at a > time and then copies it to tape. Of course if you have hardware > compression, or a lot of tapes, this may not be an issue. Bingo on HW compression. With tape archives in general, I'd advocate reliability over compression anyway. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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