[CLUE-Tech] Tape Drives - why?

David Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Sat Jul 31 19:37:36 MDT 2004


Angelo Bertolli wrote:
[...]
> I cringe at the idea of  tar -czvf server.tgz /
> We have a LOT of little files.

What's the issue with that?

> 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?

You're wrong.  Most backups work at the file level.

Dave



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