Re: Warning: bad experience with KBackup and 100M zip disks

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

> > So, I am still totally mystified about why it went so horribly wrong.
> > It would seem the KBackup software is at least partly to blame, maybe
> > entirely to blame?  It uses gzip in conjunction with afio, which I
> > thought were fairly reliable.  Hardware could possibly be to blame,
> > but I thought zip disks were fairly reliable these days??
> 
> This is a very strong argument for verifying your backups *before* you
> need them.

Yes.  Unfortunately KBackup does not yet allow the "verify" option for
random access media backups.  I was going to see if I could do some
kind of manual verify, but I hadn't got round to it yet.

> I'll link again to my backups mini-FAQ/HOWTO:
> 
>    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html
>    
> ...for why simple is better and tape is cheap.

Thanks for this.  I wish I had read it before!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers,

Mark.


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