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Date:      Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:24:19 -0500
From:      Jay Hall <jhall@socket.net>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backup Size
Message-ID:  <D0D2566C-8912-4F77-BB54-714C7DB4B2D2@socket.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090810170921.GC49364@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Aug 10, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Roland Smith wrote:

>> The fact that you are using tar also plays a part. Tar has some  
>> overhead to
>> store information about the files it contains.

Is it possible to calculate the amount of overhead tar will use?

Thanks,


Jay



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