On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:13:53PM +0300, Conny Gyllendahl wrote: > Also, tar+gnuzip gives you alot better compression than the internal > hardware of the drive, at least from what I've read on this list.
This is true but as a friend pointed out to me recently when I was having some tape reading problems - if you get some bit errors reading a tar file from a tape, most likely asll you will lose is the affected file. If OTOH you get bit errors reading a gzipped tar file, you most likely will not be able to read anything after the bit errors. Just something to be aware of. Kindest regards, Niall O Broin
