backups

[jim frost]

> One of my personal favorites to
>save tape and speed the backup is to compress the data [...]
>Compression is slow, but Exabyte tape drives are slower, so there you are ...

The biggest problem with this technique is the bad spot on the tape.  You
loose everything if the tape is at all bad, or if the tape degrades.  This is
also why I don't like tar et al as backup utilities; they provide little or
no redundancy.

jim frost
madd at bu-it.bu.edu