Re: [opensuse] Tar file Error - Urgent data recovery

On 2017-08-30 14:43, Anton Aylward wrote:

But sometimes you do need to 'package', and the fact that we use RPM files to package/bundle up a set of files and some metadata is an example of that.

The guts of a RPM file is gzip'd CPIO/SVR4 format file. More recent versions of RPM can also use bzip2, lzip, lzma, or xz compression.

But 1) this is not a backup, and 2) there is a checksum. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)