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- From: toad@rubikon.han.de (Peter Cleve)
- Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X?
- References: <1992Sep3.165702.3809@gateway.novell.com> <1992Sep4.085828.10853@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Sep06.104350.2659@rubikon.han.de> <BRTMAC.92Sep6140131@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Organization: Rubikon Rethen BRD
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 11:10:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep07.111018.6747@rubikon.han.de>
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- In <BRTMAC.92Sep6140131@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
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- >Also, if a disk in the middle of the dump is bad there is no way to
- >get the data from the disks following the bad one because you can't
- >start reading a compressed file in the middle.
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- This problem solved by compact too, compact writes the information who is
- need to keep the compressed Datastream in "sync" every n bytes to the
- compressed data-stream.
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