[lug] Backup media and programs opinions?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:01:39PM -0600, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
>I should have been more specific:  When restoring with tar you don't know if you restored 
>garbage when running into a bad block.  You can still forward to the beginning of another 

There is a field in the tar headers which is for a checksum, but I don't
believe it's used.  Part of the problem is that the tar header appears
BEFORE the file-data, so putting in the checksum would require reading the
file data twice (once to compute the checksum, once to dump it to the
archive).

Sean
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