Use afio or dump and you can compress/gzip/bzip2 each file individually.
Just my half-nybble.
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> From: Kelly French[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 2:32 PM
> To: Stephen Waters
> Cc: Thomas Seidel; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Help needed w/ HP SureStore DAT24
>
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> For me, I'm just tarring up hosts to tape. When the tape develops an
> error, and I use software compression (i.e. -zvvcf /dev/nst0), then
> I'll
> lose the whole session. If I let the tape drive compress, it won't
> compress as good (like you said), but at least I only lose a file or
> two.
>
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