Re: Backup Errors

[Nathan Heagy]

Christian Brandt wrote:

>  Use bzip2 instead of gzip - it operates with blocks and if you loose a
> single bit, you only loose one bzip2-block, which is around 900k of
> compressed data.

Ok. I'm not sure I know how to use bzip instead of gzip. I'll man it, but
any tips would help.

Nathan

>
>  I also like to have a checksum over my backup and bzip2 fits well for
> that, too. There is one thing even worse than a lost backup: a backup
> with badly wrong restored data which you are not even aware of.
>
> Greetings
>     Christian