Carlos E. R. 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.
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. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org