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From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: backup with compressed cpio files ?
Message-ID: <953@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 89 21:34:55 GMT
References: <229@carroll1.UUCP>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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From article <229@carroll1.UUCP>, by erickson@carroll1.UUCP (Dave Erickson):
> In article <64@estinc.UUCP> fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:

>>With compress, one read error and you're SOL as far as recovering the rest
>>of the data.  Of course, vanilla cpio is so braindead that you're SOL
>>anyway, so you might as well go ahead and compress it...  :-)

> 
> 	I agree.  One medium error and you're kicked out of the program.  This

What about the new 'zoo'?
It allows compression to-from stdio, and has a skipping feature, to 
bypass bad blocks in an archive.
I haven't tried this yet, but it does interest me, since I have to
back up a 240MB Database to 150MB QIC.
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