[BBLISA] Backing up sparse files ... VM's and TrueCrypt ... etc

[Dean Anderson]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

> > Doesn't compression do very well on a long string of zeros?
> 
> Yes, but how do you do the incremental?

dump | gzip | dd

(dd is necessary to get efficient blocksize on many tapes anyway.)

gnu tar also does incremental dumps, and might be suitable for windows.

		--Dean


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