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- From: yaron@aristo.tau.ac.il (Yaron Zabary)
- Subject: Re: Compressed backups
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.160150.441@aristo.tau.ac.il>
- Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:01:50 GMT
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- Rose Oguz (rose@baby.swmed.utexas.edu) wrote:
- > It seems to me that I can compress data before backing up by using -Z in
- > the bru command. I have not figured out how to restore compressed files.
- > Can someone please tell me what I need to do.
-
- Simply bru -x. It is able to tell by itself that the backup is compressed, it
- can also tell that the file is byte-swapped (if you 'bru -cf /dev/tape' but
- 'bru -xf /dev/tapens').
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- -- Yaron.
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