Re: Tarring

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 20:04 -0600, stan reichardt wrote:
> Shouldn't the line continuation character be "\" instead of "/"?

Good catch!

(especially considering _no_ error message was included by the poster
that would have immediately told us to look for a syntax error ;-)

I personally favor afio with per-file compression and multi-volume
(user-selectable max size -- such as 600MiB for CD or 4.3GiB for DVD ;-)
output:  
  http://freshmeat.net/projects/afio/  

The problem with tar (or cpio -- let alone their collective replacement,
pax) is that compression is done _after_ the archive step.  That means
the entire archive is at the _mercy_ of the compression's recoverability
with a single bit error after that point.

Stream archives are very recoverable from errors -- unless they are
compressed.  With per-file compression inside of the archive, it does
_not_ affect the recoverability of the archive _after_ any error.

Plus there is also my age-old script here which just does per-file
compression to CD/DVD with_out_ _any_ archiving (since ISO9660 is really
an archive in itself, and the "record" step is like unarchiving onto a
media):  
  http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0204c/  


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