Re: backup compress on the fly
On Oct 03 2005, Mike McCarty wrote:
> OTOH, if the whole image on tape is a compressed one, then tar or
> gunzip or whatever is simply going to complain that the one (and only)
> file in the compressed archive is corrupt and unrecoverable.
That's not really true when one uses bzip2, since it apparently has
"checkpoints" that bzip2recover can use in case of a disaster.
In any case, I would heartily recommend using the package dvdisaster on
CDs/DVDs used for backup. A higher dose of redundancy makes one sleep
better.
Hope this helps, Rogério.
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