Re: [Dump-users] compression

[Stelian P. <st...@ca...>]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Bernhard Erdmann wrote:

> Chuck Pierce wrote:
> > 
> > is there a way to compress a partition before you put it on to tape??  I'd like
> > to keep all of my data on one tape, and I don't really care how long it takes..
> > thanks - Chuck
> 
> /sbin/dump 0af - /partition | gzip -c | dd obs=32k of=$TAPE

But in this case, if your tape is tape is damaged, you lose all
the benefits of recovering some data dump has...

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