patrick q <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a lot of important archives, up to 10,000 files per ~10 Meg > tar.gz tarball, that I like to keep as safe as possible.
[...] > Would it not be better to compress the files individually first and > then tar them into an archive instead of the normal tar.gz > operation, to have the best chance of recovering as many files as > possible? There is an alternative archiving tool called afio (packaged in stable) which apparently does this. -- Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>