Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:01:50 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2009-09-15 at 14:57 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 14:22:50 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > > As for tools designed to embed data to assist in recovering from or at
> > > > least minimizing loss of data due to media errors, including in concert
> > > > with compression:
> > > > In the free world right off the top of my head, dar and xar. And dar
> > > > just uses parchive which you could use seperately with something else
> > > > too. And any of the official backup programs (amanda, zmanda, bru,
> > > > bacula, arkeia, ...?)
> > >
> > > I wonder why not on free software.
> >
> > Amanda and Bacula are free software the last time I checked.
>
> And they have those features we are refering to, like automatic error
> detection and recovery?

Based on my read of Brain's mail, which you have quoted twice: Yes.

If you'd like to read the relevant parts of Brain's mail, it is (still) quoted 
above.
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