[3926] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Network Backup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal L. DeVore Jr.)
Mon Nov 11 17:02:59 1996
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Cc: Ray Curtis <ray@fred.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Nov 1996 04:27:26 PST."
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Reply-To: hdevore@crow.bmc.com
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 15:52:06 -0600
From: "Hal L. DeVore Jr." <hdevore@crow.bmc.com>
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afrancom@numedics.transport.com said:
> Tar is the tool of choice, it seems.
Not for my money or backups it ain't. The combination of tar plus tapes is
deadly because tar can't recover from errors worth diddly. And if you
compress then that becomes can't recover from errors at all. I prefer cpio
or afio.
This gets hashed out periodically here, as I recall, and each time it's
brought up it becomes the Thread That Wouldn't Die. Just try searching the
maillist archives and see how many hits you get on "backup".
Hal DeVore (hdevore@bmc.com)
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