backup

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Tue Apr 29 20:58:40 UTC 2008


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Bradley wrote:
> Tom Holroyd wrote:
>> Show of hands: compress backups? Or 1:1 copy.
>>   
> I always do a 1:1 backup.  I tried doing compressed and found that
> sometimes the compressed file got corrupted and plus there wasn't that
> big of a space savings for me.  The other problem is that if I needed a
> backed up file, I could just access it directly to get what I needed.

somehow missed original post to know if you are using tar or some other for
doing your back up, so this is just a side note for backups.

try using cpio, no compression before. if your back up gets corrupt, cpio
will skip it.


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