Re: Tape backups using loop-aes/aespipe

[Hubert Chan <hubert@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Hubert" == Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> writes:

[...]

Hubert> ...  Perhaps Jari is referring to the fact that if you're
Hubert> compressing, then the 16+ bytes that you lost of compressed
Hubert> data, since it is compressed, represents maybe 32+ bytes of real
Hubert> data.

Sorry, That makes absolutely no sense.  I should avoid posting this
late at night.

Any errors in the underlying compressed data have the possibility of
cascading down and resulting in a whole lot more errors later in the
file.

I think that you had said (in the Debian list) that afio does per-file
compression, so if you want errors to be restricted to only within
single files, that's probably the best thing to do.

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