-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-09-11 at 07:43 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Which means that if the compression/decompression fails, it may corrupt the entire backup. I don't trust compressed tars for backups.
I think the way to look at that is:
a) if the compression fails, the tar'ing will fail, therefore your backup will fail. b) if the compression fails, you've got other things to worry about than a missing backup.
It can fail silently, so that the user doesn't notice unless he tries a test recover as part of the backup procedure. Or, the backup media can fail (read error) several months later when you need to do a recovery. Even if that error only affects a few bytes, you can loose the entire tar. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqtVPEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V3zwCfWJVsOW/f1rWlq3tEzmtCPilh C3oAnjVTSHv/fwDEUhKOLKnfaldrbxfu =Erq6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org