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Multi-DVD or (multi-CD) spanning backups with tar
Authored by: Gigacorpse on Jun 23, '05 03:02:20PM

I have thought about creating tar archives and putting them on CD put I worry that a simply bit error someone on the CD would keep me from recovering the entire archive.

(Because of this fear, I copy individual files and directories to disk images, using Ditto, and burn those. Of course, the downside of this approach is that I have to predetermine what size to make the disk images so that I can split my data up for burning to CD.)

Is there anything like recovery parity for archive files?



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