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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:21:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>
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Much of this is music materials and the like which do not compress well 
when using those programs  as I have tried.
I do not want to chance it.
Call me a chicken if you wish but it is my data.  Will the methods 
suggested do this, no compression involved?
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> I have no intention of risking a zip of any of these files, nor do i want 
>> to
>
> Risking a zip?  What does that mean?  Where is the risk?  Gnu Zip (not PK 
> Zip), and Bzip2, are highly stable formats.
> Tar is an archiving method used for decades on unix.  In fact, Linux uses 
> bzip2 as its kernel format these days.
>
> This exact method is how many of us who backup shellworld user data, do it, 
> on a regular basis--tar archived into bzip, or gzip.
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