William ChopsWestfield wrote:

> The other thing to realize is that actual user-created content
> that MUST be backed up tends to be pretty small.  My several
> years worth of little Eagle projects zips down to less than 20Mbyte,

I think it's good to be careful with zipping up files for backups. With
partially corrupted media (which doesn't seem to be that rare in restore
situations), zip files can cause a much greater loss than the actual media
loss caused. With the current prices of harddisks, I don't think there's
much of a need to zip anything for backup. Or if zipped, zip individual
files.

Gerhard

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