David E. Fox wrote: > You might check this posting[1] on Mandrake expert advocating highly > redundant rar files for the backups.
Let me point out I am a big fan of RAR. Have been for, what, well over a
decade now. However, some of what you're saying is untrue.
> Also, with tar or gzip, you can forget recovery capabilities. Not
> happening.
Of course, neither were intended for recovery capabilities. That doesn't
preclude the use of other tools which are designed for that. parchive, for
example.
> You can pick up rar from one of the mandrake mirrors, it doesn't come
> with the distro.
> ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/rpmhelp/9.2/RPMS/rar-3.1.1-1rph.i386.rpm
This is debian. Just turn on non-free and aptitude install rar.
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