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

[Tom Metro]

Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> Crashplan does backup this way, but you can't restore a sparse file
> sparsely from a crashplan backup.

Restores are rare, right? So it should not be terribly inconvenient to 
use a workaround, such as the technique for restoring sparseness to 
gzipped files (by piping to "cp --sparse=always"):

http://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2003-January/msg00013.html
http://www.thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/gnunzip-to-a-sparse-file

If you can get that to work on Windows with one of the GNU cp ports, you 
should be all set.

  -Tom

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