Linux and data storage?

[Luke Davis]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:

> I have no intention of risking a zip of any of these files, nor do i want to

Risking a zip?  What does that mean?  Where is the risk?  Gnu Zip (not PK 
Zip), and Bzip2, are highly stable formats.
Tar is an archiving method used for decades on unix.  In fact, Linux uses 
bzip2 as its kernel format these days.

This exact method is how many of us who backup shellworld user data, do 
it, on a regular basis--tar archived into bzip, or gzip.