[3938] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Network Backup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Mon Nov 11 18:03:37 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 05:49:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <afrancom@numedics.transport.com>
To: "Hal L. DeVore Jr." <hdevore@crow.bmc.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com, Ray Curtis <ray@fred.net>
In-Reply-To: <199611112152.PAA06577@erehwon.bmc.com>
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Hmn.
I've been using 8mm DAT and haven't really had the opportunity to have a
tape error since it builds in its own Error Correcting Code fairly well.
I see what you mean, however. Old style tapes with a tar write...
Hmn... I'll have to think about this.
Cpio would be more of a block by block thing that wouldn't get too
terribly upset if a block died here or there... The others would still be
okay, but tar, being a continuous stream of data would get
interrupted from that point forward ?
True ?
Is there a transportability issue with cpio ?
THX
-AEF
On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Hal L. DeVore Jr. wrote:
> 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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