"Andrew McRobert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to say that i find that "tar" covers all bases pretty well ... > depends what you're used to I guess.
There's at least one issue with tar that's kept me from using it, you don't want to use software compression with tar. Tar compresses globally, which means that the whole of the archive is considered one big compressed file. If something happens to the beginning of the tape you wouldn't be able to recover any of the data on that tape. This is in contrast to something like afio which compresses a single file at a time and then copies it to tape. Of course if you have hardware compression, or a lot of tapes, this may not be an issue. Gary
