On 2005-02-20, SergioDM <ottone@gypsie.ottoheadquarter> wrote:

[many snips]

> dd if=/dev/disk of=/dev/stdout | tar czf backup.tar.gz | split -b <size>
> cat piece1 piece2 ... piecen | tar xz | dd ...
>
> Do we really need those utilities?

Possibly. If any of your pieces are corrupted, you'll likely lose every
piece afterwards. It's possible that zsplit and unzsplit avoid that
scenario.

Or, asked another way, do we really need zcat? Not really, but it's
pretty handy, no? So, don't be too harsh until you try the utilities
and see if they're any use. (FWIW, I won't bother, but that's because I
don't have a strong need for those tools right now.)

--keith

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