Re: [Dump-users] dump & cdrecord

[David G. <dj...@dr...>]

> That's what the restore -V option is there for. 
> 
> Correction: looking at the source I see that -V is used only when 
> reading multi-volume *compressed* dumps (and indeed, this is what I
> use myself). I wonder whether uncompressed dumps need a special treatement
> or not...
> 
Works fine if I compress with -z1. Since the data wasn't too compressable I
had decided to not compress. With compression does a read error make
the rest of the backup unreadable or does the decompression resync?

Might be good to document the interaction of -V and compression if not
done already.