Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> > Now, first you compress the tar archive. That is *bad*.
> 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.
with -9
Further, can you keep your tape streaming with bzip2 -9
compressing the data stream?
And does tar realign after 900 Kb of trash?
Also, there is a *hell* of data in 2MB (compresed to 900 Kb)
of configuration files. I'd prefer 10-32 Kb blocks or per-file
compression (afio does that) if I need compression at all.
> 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.
Ergo: Always, always compare your backup!
-Wolfgang
