> I want back up a directory to an archive for my upcoming big wipe > for 9.2. > > The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours > creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. > > Is it faster (but less compression) just to do tar.gz?
YMMV, but i have heard people profess loudly not to use compression on backups. The tar isn't as small, but way less chance of corruption... -- Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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