Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 23:11:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump/restore with compression Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970612230941.2315A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <19970613000752.38538@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Ollivier Robert wrote: ... > I'd never use any compression -- except hardware-based like DAT's -- > because you can't recover much if your tape have a problem... I'm against > compressed file systems for that very reason too. Not if you do file-by-file compression. Compressed tar archives have this problem: every file after the damaged area is lost. But if you compress the files first, then tar them, you can still recover all files after the damaged area. ... > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr > FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #18: Sun Jun 8 15:32:28 CEST 1997 > > Tom
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