Back up help

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Andrew Shugg <andrew at neep.com.au> wrote:
> If you want to hang on to your originals you can fit them onto smaller
> media by creating multi-volume archives (set volume size to around
> 4480mb) with a file compression program such as p7zip (you turn file
> compression off though as the savings with raw video data are not worth
> the time it takes to compress).

A major caveat wrt 7zip is that it does not store the owners and groups of 
files. I wouldn't use this format if storing correct permissions is of 
importance.


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