On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:17:16PM -0400, Ean Kingston wrote:
> Also, with hardware compression, I know I can restore the tape without having
> to worry about finding the right libraries and programs to do the restore.

True.  But one can work around that by backing up / uncompressed,
and making sure it contains a (possibly statically linked) copy
of gzip.  Hmmm, something to add to my to-do list :-(

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