In a message dated: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 13:45:29 PST "Karl J. Runge" said:
>I don't know what you mean by "not work well". My guess is it would >always work (in addition to the advantage of block recovery). Like I said, I'm only vaguely remembering this, and can't recall the details. So, I could and probably am completely mangling these memories :) >Seems you could always force the issue by: > ># tar -cf - <dirs> | bzip2 | dd of=/dev/nrmt0 bs=NN ># dd if=/dev/nrmt0 bs=NN | bzip2 -d | tar -xf - ... Yeah, but then that's *really* slow :) >On my next backup of my home LAN (4-5 4GB tapes) I'll try to rememeber to >use bzip2 instead of gzip and let you know if there were any problems. Please let me know, I'd be interested in the results :) ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
