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- Subject: Re: backup and the -p option
- Message-ID: <1029328.8877.11179@kcbbs.gen.nz>
- From: Craig_Anderson@kcbbs.gen.nz (Craig Anderson)
- Date: 29 Jan 93 02:27:57 GMT
- Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Rudy Chukran (chukran@austin.vnet.ibm.com) writes:
- >backup -p is very convenient, but non-portable. I use it a lot myself.
- >But tar |compress is usually more space efficient and portable.
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- I believe "tar | compress" makes it almost impossible to recover data
- from a damaged tape. "backup -p" doesn't have this problem plus it also
- appears to have checksums on the data portion (something tar doesn't).
-
- -Craig
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