Recovering a Crashed Fedora

[Heinz Diehl]

On 29.01.2015, Gary Stainburn wrote: 

> After running the tar zcvf .......
> run the command tar ztvf .........
> to test it again.

And 1 day later you get a bad sector containing a part of your compressed archive,
and your whole backup is gone (and according to Murphy's law, your harddisk containing
the source data will refuse to start right after that :-) ).

> The benefit of tar over rsync is that you can save it to 
> other filesystems, such as NTFS, memory stick etc.

Yes (although you can virtually do that with any backup which is compressed, because all
the attributes are safely stored in the archive).