Hi Tim, > I've also used afio for a number of years (to tape). It's advantage > over tar is that compression takes place on a per-file basis, so less > likely to end up with a totally useless backup in the event of local > corruption.
Yeah, I've wondered about that, but bzip2recover(1) lets me get back all the blocks, normally 900KiB, that match their CRC from a corrupted .bzip2 file. And tar's format makes it fairly easy to spot the start of the next entry and "fake" the intervening missing stuff so tar's happy. I'm happy enough with that and prefer the compressor to make use of similarities between nearby files as opposed to it considering each in isolation, missing out on lots of opportunities. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
