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.

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