Re: [tlug] Remote Backups and Command Line Stuff

[Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com>]

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:49:55 -0500, Stuart Luppescu
<s-luppescu@example.com> wrote:

> If you're going to do a backup, I would think you'd want the original
> files, rather than a tar file on the remote machine.

Why?

As long as you can restore the backup if needed, why not do it so that
it uses as little space as possible? I do! I generate roughly a GB
of .tar.bz2 files every day, so I'm pretty pleased that they're not
uncompressed!

-- 
G. Stewart - godwin.stewart@example.com

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