On Thu, 2 May 2002, at 9:50am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> With amanda, sw compression is better IMO.

  Be aware: A single bad block on the tape can corrupt the gzip data stream,
rendering the rest of the backup unusable.  gzip does *not* recover well
from errors.

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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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