Re: Backup Errors

[Wolfgang Weisselberg]

Hi!

Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:

> > Further, can you keep your tape streaming with bzip2 -9
> > compressing the data stream?

>  use buffer - with gzip and bzip2 - simply use buffer always.

That's also a question of CPU power ... if you just can't
compress fast enough, you can't help it with buffer.  Buffer can
just smooth out rougher spots.

On the other hand, using buffer *reliably* induced errors into
my backup (scsi-DAT).  Always test your backup.

-Wolfgang