Re: Backup Errors

[Christian Brandt]

Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:

> 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?

 use buffer - with gzip and bzip2 - simply use buffer always.

Gruss,
    Christian