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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!pacific.cps.msu.edu!paoletti
  2. From: paoletti@comp/unix/bsdps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  4. Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep3.155227.16767@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
  6. Date: 3 Sep 92 15:52:27 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep3.015437.15379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <dtb.715502483@otto>
  8. Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
  9. Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
  10. Lines: 12
  11. Originator: paoletti@pacific.cps.msu.edu
  12.  
  13. Basically, people have responded to my post by pointing out
  14. that you can pipe through the compress program.  I know to
  15. use tar, compress, cpio, dd, pipes, etc.  I should have
  16. included the following point in my original post:
  17.  
  18. If you pipe through the compress program, doesn't it write
  19. its compression/translation table at the beginning of the
  20. output that it produces?  What happens if the beginning of
  21. the tape or the first disk is damaged?  Or am I incorrect
  22. in assuming that compress works this way?
  23.  
  24. Dave Paoletti :)
  25.