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Re: Linux Backup : Wie ?

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From: Marc SCHAEFER
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:00
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Ernst-Udo Wallenborn <wallenborn@phys.chem.ethz.ch> wrote:
> gzip, afio and such, which is a clear disadvantage (i know this from
> experience). Hm, i might switch to taper. Thanks for the advice.

Can you elaborate more why afio is a bad choice ?

(I personnally nowadays try to use only GNU tar everywhere, since it's
 very portable and very reliable, and has interesting features, such as
 compare).
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From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Subject: Re: Linux Backup : Wie ?
Date: 1999/07/28
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