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From: arthur@sgi.com (Arthur Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Backups using compress
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Date: 30 Nov 90 18:54:22 GMT
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In article <1022@pcsbst.pcs.com> wd@distel.pcs.com (wd) writes:
>
>*** WARNING ***
>If you ever want to be able to restore the files then *DO NEVER EVER
>compress archive files! Any I/O error will cause you to lose all
>your files after the error because you can *BY NO WAY* re-synchronize
>in a compressed archive file.

Well, I don't know about you, but I restore from compressed 
archive files all the time.  It's a fairly common way of 
storing things on ftp archives, and it works just fine.
I don't know why it doesn't work for you--perhaps it's 
specific to the type of machine you use.  

-arthur

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Arthur Evans 					arthur@rawlinson.wpd.sgi.com