[wellylug] Encrypted backup recovery

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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:06:36 +1200, Mark Signal  wrote:
> Is bzip2 generally regarded as more robust than gzip?
> 
The man page is definitely your friend in this instance :-).  bzip2
_may_ allow undamaged blocks to be recovered (they don't guarantee it)
when corruption occurs, unlike gzip.  Recovery works best with larger
files and/or a smaller block size.  A smaller block size reduces
compression though.

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