Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 07:06:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: obrien@leonardo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Compress dumps? Message-ID: <199505021206.HAA05978@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <9505011729.AA07524@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 1, 95 11:29:46 am
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> I always want to cry when someone suggests stream compression on > dump formats. It depends on how often you do the dumps, and how badly you need them. I take uncompressed dumpes at home because I take them infrequently: a couple of times a month. This is due to dumping 1.8GB to 60MB cartridges. At work I dump nightly. The worst case loss if a single tape isn't recoverable is one day. If more than one tape's bad then it's likely something's systematically wrong with my backups anyway. Archival backups are redundant or uncompressed.
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