[plug] Backups

[Russ Powers]

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 03:39 pm, Craig Ringer wrote:
<big snip>
> A quick aside: Does anybody here know of a tool that can create
> compressed-then-archived archives, similar to what the Zip tool does
> under DOS? I'd be looking for something that fully supported all the
> UNIX file permissions, extended attributes, etc but knew how to run each
> file through gzip before archiving it. I'm not too comfortable with
> tar's -z option, because AFAIK gzip's compression deals very poorly with
> corruption or unreadable blocks, and a bad block could render the rest
> of the archive unreadable.

DAR:

http://dar.linux.free.fr/ 

And the documentation is very good.

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Regards,
Russ