Re: Compressed backups

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From: Yaron Zabary
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:01

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Rose Oguz (rose@baby.swmed.utexas.edu) wrote:
> It seems to me that I can compress data before backing up by using -Z in
> the bru command.  I have not figured out how to restore compressed files.
> Can someone please tell me what I need to do.

 Simply bru -x. It is able to tell by itself that the backup is compressed, it
can also tell that the file is byte-swapped (if you 'bru -cf /dev/tape' but
'bru -xf /dev/tapens').
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-- Yaron.

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