[sf-lug] gpg, dd, find, tar, cpio, bugs, pax, ... oh my! :-)

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 23:05 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Edgecase!

Coding was an early passion; this goes with the territory.

> (I'm unclear on why such a person would be seeking to file-compress such
> files.)

The seeking would not be to compress, but to make a full-system backup,
probably without compression. A mirrored pair might be used too, but it
does not replace rotating snapshots.