Re: Backups...

[Aaron Walker <amwalker flinet com>]

Alan Shutko wrote:

> >>>>> "S" == Steve Frampton <frampton mail flarc edu on ca> writes:
>
> S> But I've heard 'tar' can be dangerous to use because of the risk of
> S> losing massive quantities of data if say, the media was corrupt 10%
> S> of the way in.
>
> Tar itself is quite safe.  It can recover from bad media.  However,
> gzip can't, and that's what you're using with the z flag.

what about using bzip2?

>
>
> afio, if it's still around, is probably one of the better ones.  It
> uses gzip compression on a per-file basis, so if the media is bad
> you'll only lose a few files, not the entire archive.
>
> Taper also has the same property, so you might try that, too.
>
> (I really need to start backing up again...)
>
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