Re: backup archive format saved to disk

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Douglas Tutty wrote:
> If FEC is used on all media (except CDROM), is there any value in adding
> my own FEC layer over top or should I just format the drive JFS and copy
> my tar.bz2 backup file to it and be done?  (remembering that the drive in
> the bank is only one of the sets of data I keep).

Only you can answer that question.

I didn't say that FEC isn't used on CDROMs, I said I don't know
whether it be used. It's something worth investigating, though!

Mike
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