-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-12-06 at 12:45 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I read once that the cpio archive is more solid.
If the tar.gz archive is broken, all of it is broken. The backup program that claimed this explained that instead they used cpio, compressing each file separately: thus only one file would be irretrievable, not the whole archive.
But the tradeoff with per-file compression is that you typically get rather poor compression for archives that contain many small files.
Yes, the compression ratio is a bit worse, but that's something I will happily sacrifice for safety where backups are concerned. I have some backups of an entire HD done using nearly a hundred floppies - you can imagine when - and the whole backup is still fully retrievable, although some floppies have errors. They were made with PCBackup (dos version). It had compression with a data recovery algorithm that seems to work well after the years; the data recovery feature had a lower compression ratio, of course. I wish we had something similar for Linux - with current media, obviously :-)
I wish I could make "info" go away. I hate it. In addition to the atrocious tools used to access it,
Try "pinfo" instead. It doesn't make the contents better, of course, just easier to navigate ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFd4vvtTMYHG2NR9URAhQ/AJ9phbE57Bcgi0SCQ4gH/PqmAw5GuACeOR2h z6DfaehDxkDCl/URONNZJnE= =PpZs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org