On Saturday 29 October 2011 20:12:27 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2011-10-29 20:05, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
That's the beauty of chaining commands in Linux & Unix. Here's an example I just grabbed off the net: dd if=/dev/wd0a | gzip -9 > /mnt/backup.gz
That is true, but the result is not as reliable or robust as an application designed from start to create backup compressed images. It can add forward recovery data that serves to recover from media errors (and have into account the size of that media).
I don't know anything in Linux with that capability.
parchive, which stores data redundantly with enough checksum information so that lost files may be recovered, if there aren't too many lost What non-linux tools with that capability are you referring to? Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org