begin quote 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 -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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