tar | compress

[Kenneth J. Hendrickson]

If you do a backup with tar, and pipe the output through compress before
writing it on the disk or tape, and ...

	if there is a single bit error on the tape,
	then you could loose all the files in your backup from that
		point until the end.

If you don't use compress, and there is a single bit error, you won't
have that problem, but you will require many more disks or tapes.

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So what do people do?  Do you trust your disks/tapes and use compress?

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