Holger Parplies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/08/2007 07:50:14 PM: > Hi, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05.01.2007 at 10:27:41 [[BackupPC- > users] tar vs. cpio: Survivability of archives]: > > [...] > > Of course, in researching this further, I can't seem to find a resource > > that agrees with the fact that a corrupted tar is unrecoverable beyond a > > bad block. Am I wrong on this? What are your thoughts? > > yes, I guess you are.
I guess I am! :) <detailed tests of tar error handling snipped> > So, tar seems to handle corruption quite gracefully, losing only the files > actually affected by the corruption. Excellent. > As you said, matters are quite different with some compression algorithms. > Maybe the reference you have in mind actually meant "tgz" archives (gzip > compressed tar archives)? It is *entirely* possible that I am confusing compression error recovery with tar error recovery. So, then, I won't worry about it. Thank you *very* much for your thorough testing. That was definitely beyond the call of duty. I greatly appreciate it. Tim Massey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
