On Thu, 2 May 2002, at 11:23am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think this is taken care of by the fact they don't actually send the > gzip stream directly to tape. What amanda does is create "chunks" of > backup data from the file systems you are backing up. Each "chunk" is > separately gzipped, then that file is streamed to tape.
Ahhhhh. Yes, that will help protect against the gzip failure mode. At worst, you will lose only that one "chunk" to a bad block. That's a nice feature to have. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
