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Re: Re[4]: Backup (hardware) for Linux




> >  that's why Amanda (the software I recommended you) gzips up dumps before
> >  backing up. if I ever get the time, I'll engineer it to switch to bzip2
> >  maybe. gzip is better comression than the DDS-2's hardware comression.
> 
> Does Amanda gzip's on a per-file basis or the whole archive like tar xz? The
> latter makes backups extremely unreliable. BRU compresses separate files. Among
> free software, cpio and/or afio can do this, too.

gzips entire dumps, as I said (uses unix dump and then gzip). yes, there
are resons for and reasons against this, but it so far performed rather
well for us when we wanted to retrieve anything (use restore in
interactive mode)