[H-GEN] Linux Backup

[Robert Brockway]

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On Thu, 9 May 2003, Robert Stanford wrote:

> I was under the impression if the tape drive supported hardware
> compression then dump used it by default?

No, tape drive hardware compression is completely seperate to the
compression that dump offers.

Even though I don't trust compressed backups on tape I have no concerns
about using compression with other media.  I backup my personal systems to
an external firewire drive (actually an IDE drive connected to a
firewire-IDE bridge) [1].

When backing up ext2/3 filesystems to my firewire harddrive I routinely
use bzip2 -9 compression (dump -j9)

[1] Thanks to David Makepeace for this superb backup idea.

Cheers
	Rob

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