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Re: [cobalt-users] Backups NOT using a backup server such as Legato
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Backups NOT using a backup server such as Legato
- From: flash22@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu Apr 18 04:15:50 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Menno M Jansz wrote:
>
> You could use Daniel's http://www.neuhaus-internet.de/cobalt/raqbackup/
>
> But it does make use of tar.
>
> >I don't want to use tar because of files with holes if you know what I
> >mean..
>
> I dont, please explain.
>
gnu tar can handle holes, that's what --sparse is for :)
ps: 'holes' are unallocated blocks in the middle of files that contain
no data and thus use no disk space, usually found in random database
files...
gsh