Re: best practice for tar and gzip?

[Leonard Stiles <ljs@uk2.net>]

patrick q <rpmq@yahoo.com> writes:

> I have a lot of important archives, up to 10,000 files per ~10 Meg
> tar.gz tarball, that I like to keep as safe as possible.

[...]

> Would it not be better to compress the files individually first and
> then tar them into an archive instead of the normal tar.gz
> operation, to have the best chance of recovering as many files as
> possible?

There is an alternative archiving tool called afio (packaged in
stable) which apparently does this.

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Leonard Stiles <ljs@uk2.net>