[Techtalk] backup - tar

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 01:19:17PM +0200 or thereabouts, Almut Behrens wrote:
> 
> ...as I feel at least partially responsible for having caused you this
> inconvenience ;)  I'd like to mention a slightly less-known utility,
> which can do compression on a _per-file_ basis, thus making things
> safer WRT potentially corrupted data than compressing the whole stream.
> It's called afio.  Citing from its docs:
> 
>   "Like tar, afio can make compressed archives.  However,  the com­
>   pressed  archives  produced  by  afio  are much safer than tar -z
>   archives.  If a tar -z archive has a read error, tar is unable to
>   extract the files beyond this error.  The compressed archive for­
>   mat used by afio allows it to recover from read errors and go  on
>   unpacking the next file."

And it's the archiving tool used by mondoarchive
(http://www.mondorescue.org)... :-)

Conor
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