btw, there is a utility called Parchive that will make it a lot harder to lose data in an archive. it contains built in recovery routines. I used it a long time ago on some backups and when a chunk of them became corruptd, Parchive was able to recover the whole lot. Sure, it's going to make your backup file size roughly 3x what it was before, but that is worth it considering the level of data recovery.

-eric
from the central office of the Technomage Guild

On Jan 27, 2017, at 7:40 AM, Bob Elzer wrote:

> for bare metal backup I use REAR(Relax and Recover) along with fsarchiver
> 
> REAR can make iso files or make a bootable flash drive
> 
> fsarchiver is like tar, but it can recreate the filesystem too.
> also if the archive is corrupt, you olny lose the one file, not the whole archive.
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