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Re: [opensuse] Backup Question
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:48:03 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0909150038230.6870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Monday, 2009-09-14 at 08:28 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Well, what I mean is that a compressed tar is not reliable as a backup procedure.
I don't know what is reliable in Linux, but tar isn't. It is much less reliable than, for example, the old pctools backup from central point software was twenty years ago. I still have backups in 360 KB floppies that work... it had compression and low level error recovery codes. Not portable, of course.
- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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On Monday, 2009-09-14 at 08:28 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
That is only a variation of (b) above - if you can't trust your backup
procedure, a missing backup not your primary problem.
Well, what I mean is that a compressed tar is not reliable as a backup procedure.
I don't know what is reliable in Linux, but tar isn't. It is much less reliable than, for example, the old pctools backup from central point software was twenty years ago. I still have backups in 360 KB floppies that work... it had compression and low level error recovery codes. Not portable, of course.
- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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