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From: "Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>
Subject: RE: Is My Data DESTROYED?!
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:36:02 -0500
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> Cool, I learned something.  Thanks.
> 
> I use disks too.  Could "seek" using dd, but I also gzip my stuff and use
> cpio.  :(  Anyway, I almost never need to restore a file.  :)

	I rather like fbackup combined with gzip, but I don't know if there
is a Linux port of fbackup.  I use fbackup to create a named index for each
backup set, whether on disk or tape.  This makes it easy to see if a
particular file is on an archive without having to load the archive.