On Oct 03 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > OTOH, if the whole image on tape is a compressed one, then tar or > gunzip or whatever is simply going to complain that the one (and only) > file in the compressed archive is corrupt and unrecoverable.
That's not really true when one uses bzip2, since it apparently has "checkpoints" that bzip2recover can use in case of a disaster. In any case, I would heartily recommend using the package dvdisaster on CDs/DVDs used for backup. A higher dose of redundancy makes one sleep better. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
