On 10/05/2016 05:49 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-10-05 11:16, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 10/04/2016 01:03 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Then you turn around and suggest tar.gz will bit-rot inside of 90 minutes?
Come on Carlos.
Very! Well! Said!, John, although as you say, you're being pedantic, which is usually something people expect of me :-)
But let me say it more briefly
Look again at my answer to that, consider the emphasis, and then at Stevens answer.
You said <quote
I said that /IF/ there is an error that corrupts one byte of a compressed tar, with most compressors used you lose the entire archive. </quote>
You seem to miss out on that "one bit" being correctable by CRC Yes, un-tarz doesn't do that but there are tools that do.. And you never got to my conclusion that perhaps TAR'ing/ziping is not the way to go given alternatives. As discussed, one alternative might be a new disk. Whether for backup or migration (which I've done since I use LVM, but you could use rsync) would be up to you. Disks have lifetimes so getting a new disk periodically and migrating is a goo strategy anyway :-) I think you're being a bit of an inflexible stick-in-the-mud by refusing to acknowledge (a) TARZ has CRC and is error correctable using suitable tools and (b) there are alternatives to achieve your objectives of a newly install OS & system while preserving your data.. You're obsessing about a particular method while failing to considerer the overall objectives. The dictum about alligators in the swamp comes to mind. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org