On 2017-08-26 14:32, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 26/08/17 07:48 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
That's why I never do tar.gz to archive/backup data. Not reliable.
Sadly, many people disagree with you, and I don't mean people on this list, I mean service providers.
For example, I changed providers and had them dump all my email and they did it to tar.gz format. Many others use this format for 'automatic archiving' or for distribution
Yes it is not robust. There just isn't the file markers & metadata in TAR that there is in CPIO, for example.
So what do you recommend instead? Using TAR with any other compression format doesn't address the problems with TAR.
Uncompressed tar, if you must use tar. Perhaps rar with recovery data (the commercial version). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)