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Subject: Re: dump/restore with compression
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> Is there plans to integrate a compression option into dump and
> restore?

Unless you do compression on a file basis, a single bit error means that
everything after the error is useless.  Also, since most newer backup
systems have hardware compression built-in, it's not as big a deal as it
used to be given that they aren't limited to the single-bit problem due
to using CRC's and such which can correct most errors.

> Does anybody USE dump/restore anymore?

That's all I've been using for years, and still use regularly.  (Though
not as regularly as I should. :( )


Nate