-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-10-29 20:05, James Knott wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
That's the beauty of chaining commands in Linux & Unix. Here's an example I just grabbed off the net: dd if=/dev/wd0a | gzip -9 > /mnt/backup.gz
That is true, but the result is not as reliable or robust as an application designed from start to create backup compressed images. It can add forward recovery data that serves to recover from media errors (and have into account the size of that media). I don't know anything in Linux with that capability. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6sQgsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WXAwCfdYZkRWbA5ec/0EYhZ10mMSwE CwsAnRivtb03TCK0z/1yj1/es1X4Avmv =XmJW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org