John, I'll try with recompiling bzip2... Hope it will work... Happy new year! Franck On 12/31/05, John Summerfied <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Franck Y wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I make several backup with bzip2, it seems that he has the better compression. > > > > I do my backup like this for several folders. > > > > tar cvf - /home/data/ | bzip2 -9 > /backup/data.tar.bz2 > > > > When i test the archive with bzip2 -t archive.tar.bz2, everything is > > correct when the archive is under 1 Go. But i get CRC error when it's > > upper .... > > > > > > Has anyone experience this ? > > I have SUSE 10 on my laptop where I've been playing with some fairly big > files. I just tested a smaller one, a little over 6 Gbytes compressed, > > It's fine. > > My files are not tarballs, they're images of paritions and disks, and I > did not pipe them into bzip2, I wrote the data to the files and then > compressed them. I don't know whether the different way I compressed my > data is relevant, but it might be. > > > I don't use tar that way, I always tell tar to do the compression. It > should not be different, but it might be. > > > -- > > Cheers > John > > -- spambait > 1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Z1aaaaaaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ > > do not reply off-list > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Franck
