Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
>> Right, I'm aware of that. But that's a specialized tool. It requires
>> CPAN libraries, libraries from BackupPC's perl library, etc. 20 bytes
>> or so would get you something that gzip could uncompress.
>
> Are you sure? I thought it also works on its own. Hav
Chris Robertson wrote:
> John Goerzen wrote:
>> extract it without using specialized tools. It also makes me nervous
>> because it isn't a completely off-the-shelf implementation, and
>> doesn't appear to store a CRC in the file; is there integrity checking
>> anywhere?
>>
>
> http://backuppc.
John Goerzen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:40:35PM +0100, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
> wrote:
>> John Goerzen wrote:
>>
>>> First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It
>>> appears to
>>> use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip
>>> or
>>> unzip.
John Goerzen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I installed BackupPC to try it out for backing up Linux systems, and I
> have a few questions about it.
>
> First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It appears to
> use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip or
> unzip.
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:40:35PM +0100, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:
> John Goerzen wrote:
>
> > First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It appears to
> > use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip or
> > unzip. It would seem that the few bytes that a
John Goerzen wrote:
> First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It appears to
> use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip or
> unzip. It would seem that the few bytes that adding a gzip header
> means would be well worth it, since it would buy the ability t
Hi everyone,
I installed BackupPC to try it out for backing up Linux systems, and I
have a few questions about it.
First, the on-disk compression format makes me nervous. It appears to
use the deflate algorithm, but cannot be unpacked with either gzip or
unzip. It would seem that the few bytes
