backup

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Mar 19 21:12:03 UTC 2008


On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:24:21 -0400
Tom Holroyd <tomh at kurage.nimh.nih.gov> wrote:

> Show of hands: compress backups? Or 1:1 copy.

1:1 - and test them.

Two reasons 

- Most large data files (ogg etc) don't compress
- If I have to go to backup I want to maximise the probability of success

Alan




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