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[Chuck Payne <terrorpup@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Carlos E. R.
<robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thursday, 2009-09-10 at 17:01 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
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> > Anton Aylward wrote:
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> > > And as for the compression, is the code or that actually in the TAR
> > > binary or does it pipe through an external command?
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> > I feel pretty certain it uses an external command - I'm sure I've seen
> > the forked process in a 'ps axf' display.
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> Which means that if the compression/decompression fails, it may corrupt the
> entire backup. I don't trust compressed tars for backups.
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> - -- Cheers,
>       Carlos E. R.
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This question might be a bit off target, is Amanda something i could
use to back up these boxes, can it do images or does it need tape. I
am currently read the "Unix System Administrator Handbook" because I
read it had a cool chapter on backups.

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