On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Gregory J. Benscoter
<gjb5...@arl.psu.edu> wrote:
> I’m primarily concerned with in the possibility of a bit flop. If this
> occurs will the stream be lost? Or will the file that that bit flop occurred
> in be the only degraded file? Lastly how does the reliability of this plan
> compare to more traditional backup tools like tar, cpio, etc…?

You could run the stream through something like par2 and then save the
resulting mess of files to tape. It *should* protect you from bit
flips, but at the expense of increased tape size.

-B

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Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com
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