Re: dat tape backups

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From: Rick
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 00:00

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In message <55veicINN6m1@degas.syd.dit.csiro.au> - ken@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Ken
Yap)Fri, 8 Nov 1996 14:02:52 GMT writes:
:>
:>|Yes. If you just want a full backup, consider copying the whole
:>|partition to tape, e.g.
:>|
:>|	gzip -c /dev/hda1 > /dev/tape
:>|
:>|Then you can restore the whole thing, _exactly_ as it was.
:>|Works for NT or CP/M as well.
:>
:>Um, with compression, one bad block on the tape and the whole backup's
:>useless.


Exactly!!!

I just lost 2GB of data after a bad block just 5Mb into the tape archive


Guess what I wont be doing next time?


Regard
Rick

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Date: 1996/11/12
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