backup

John Thompson john at vector.os2.dhs.org
Thu Mar 20 00:08:41 UTC 2008


On 2008-03-19, Tom Holroyd <tomh at kurage.nimh.nih.gov> wrote:

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

I use tape with hardware compression and error correction. Before that I 
used afio, which compresses files individually as it places them in an 
archive. That way corruption in one file does not affect the rest of the 
archive.

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John (john at os2.dhs.org)




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