On Mon, December 31, 2007 5:16 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The Monday 2007-12-31 at 04:16 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: > >>> But I believe plain dar is. I found it to slow, though. I wish >>> rsync could >>> do a little compresion... >> >> Compression is good until you get an erroneous bit. >> >> then it makes your life miserable. > > Did you ever use the old PCBackup for Dos, from PC Tools (Central > Point > Software)? I have backups made in 80 5¼ floppies and still > recoverable. > They are compressed, yes, but they also contain recovery data to > repair > read errors. In fact, they do have sectors with errors, and the > software > is able to get the whole good data out of them, about twenty years > later. > And it was so fast I barely had time to label one floppy before it > asked > for the next one. > > We don't have such a tool in Linux. The technology is out there > somewhere, > but I don't know of a tool that can record (and do it fast) removable > media compressed with recovery data designed to bypass the common > types of > media errors. Think of a DVD with a .tgz archive... a scratch, an > error, > and the entire archive is useless. > > I'm not talking of state of the art maximum compression: only some > compression.
That is an excellent observation. The other items mentioned are all either command-line (ugh!) or scripted. This seems like an area ripe for exploration. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
