Hi, I'm about to try out Tarsnap for the first time this weekend, but before doing do, wanted to check on a couple of things.
1). Is Tarsnap suitable for _all_ file types, or are there any types of files that it has problems with? I'm intending to back up quite a different variety of file types - text, photographs, music, and so on, and thought it might be better to ask this question first. 2). Does the archiving process ( i.e. use of the 'tar' command) alter the original files in any way? Again, I'm pretty sure it doesn't, but thought it better to be safe than sorry. I was concerned that if, for some reason, I couldn't get the archiving to work, it might damage the original files. Thanks for any advice on these matters. Regards, John Gamble -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.
