[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

[Angelo Bertolli]

David L. Willson wrote:

>How about tgz's, just like you'd use on tape, only on disk.  You do a Full
>on Friday, and Diffs (by modify-date, or however) every other day, and name
>the files something like $server-$date-[full|diff].tgz
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I cringe at the idea of  tar -czvf server.tgz /
We have a LOT of little files.
Maybe it's possible to do dd | gzip?
I think most backups basically image partitions so they don't need to 
know much about the filesystem... am I wrong?