Linux and data storage?

[Sean M McMahon]

Someone will undoubtedly correct me about this, zip does not compress 
music files more then they are already compressed.  Zip is a loss-less 
compression format.  All your data could be there.  Yes in answer to your 
question, there are methods which have been suggested which will meet your 
goals and not compress your data.




Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net>
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09/27/2004 04:21 PM
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Much of this is music materials and the like which do not compress well 
when using those programs  as I have tried.
I do not want to chance it.
Call me a chicken if you wish but it is my data.  Will the methods 
suggested do this, no compression involved?
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:

> 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.
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