On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
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On Thursday, 2009-09-10 at 17:01 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
And as for the compression, is the code or that actually in the TAR binary or does it pipe through an external command?
I feel pretty certain it uses an external command - I'm sure I've seen the forked process in a 'ps axf' display.
Which means that if the compression/decompression fails, it may corrupt the entire backup. I don't trust compressed tars for backups.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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This question might be a bit off target, is Amanda something i could use to back up these boxes, can it do images or does it need tape. I am currently read the "Unix System Administrator Handbook" because I read it had a cool chapter on backups. -- ---------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador openSUSE Member skype -- terrorpup twitter -- terrorpup friendfeed -- http://friendfeed.com/terrorpup Come join me at the Atlanta Linux Fest, September 19th, 2009 http://atlantalinuxfest.org/. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org