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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:22:09 -0600
Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




> I do 'tar -cjf /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /home ... ... ...; tar -cf
> /dev/tape  /tmp/backup.tar.bz2'. I really need to backup critical data
> off of the box, also.


Do note that for tape issues its suggested not to use compression, since
once you get an error in a block then its far harder to recover partial
data, than it is with clean "tar" files.

ofc, theres bzip2recover and other nice utils, but still it poses a
problem.


//Spider

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