-----Original Message-----
From: Tino Schwarze [mailto:backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de] 
Sent: 26 January 2010 14:06
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Comments on this backup plan please

Hi,

You might want to try gzip --rsyncable instead of ZIP and see whether it
makes a difference. Because of the file splitting etc. I'd add a .md5
checksum file, just to be sure. Also, there is a tool which name I
cannot remember which allows you to split a file and generate an
additional error-correction file, so you get a bit of redundancy and
chances are higher to reconstruct the archive, even if a part is lost.

Disabling compression in BackupPC for these hosts might speed things up
since the files cannot be compressed anyway.

Tino.



Thanks Tino - the tool we use to split the file does do md5 checksums.


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