On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 06:03, Michael D. Viron wrote:
> >6) Tar -cvf monthly.backup.tar /home/user/Mail
>
> Just a thought -- you might want to do tar -czvf monthly.backup.tar.gz, as
> it'll have better compression.
In fact, tar doesn't compress at all -- it merely archives and concatenates.
That is the reason why it is almost always used in conjunction with gzip or
bzip2.
bzip2 compresses better than gz, so tar -czvf monthly.backup.tar.bz2 would be
best.
> >Will it work and is there an easier way?
>
> I don't see any reason why not, but I've never used Kmail, so I'm not sure.
>
> Michael
>
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