On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:12:09 +0200 (CEST), you wrote:
BTW with any recent GNU tar you can use the "I" switch (instead of "z") to transparently use bzip2.
Which version? My gnu tar (SuSE 7.0) has the -l flag but it's not bzip2 related.
For a commercial tool I can recommend BRU (www.estinc.com) which is a nice enhanced tar replacement. They claim improved resistance to damaged data but luckily I haven't had to test this feature.
I'll have to re-look at it. I asked about this issue (backup apps) in this ml since time ago. Bru was one of the adviced programs. SuSE also ships some free backup program, but I remember I started to review one of them and it seemed a bit fuzzy. So finally I think I'm going to create some basic shell scripts and put it / them at crontab. At least I have full control and I can customize it to fit my needs.
If by robust you mean it's possible to recover partial data from a damaged file then it sounds possible but I don't know anything about the internals.
Yes, this is what I meant. It "sounds" possible to many people (/me included) but nobody seems to really confirm the issue. That's one of the reasons I asked here. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ** RoMaN SoFt / LLFB ** roman@madrid.com http://pagina.de/romansoft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~