Thank you for the info.
1) Looking at the link you provided, I see something which puzzles me:
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tar
Probably the easiest command to use when transferring files from one UNIX system to another. This command will NOT span across multiple tapes.
I don't understand this as we have one weekly backup done with TAR that spawns on 2 tapes !
So this makes me wonder about the truth of the following:
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dd
Converts/copies files to/from an output device. DD stands for Data Dump. This command will NOT span across multiple tapes.
2) For our TARing to to 8mm 5Gb tapes, we use a blksize=10240. What would be the blksize used for DD and GZIP v1.2.4?
3) Humm, I see that now all our servers have GZIP installed. Is this 1.2.4 version a free one ?