Re: tar of gzipped files and please take school argument backchannel

The Pirate Kings wrote:
>>How do you create a
>>tape archive of compressed data? In
>>pseudomathematical/functional 
>>terms:
>>tar & gzip gives you:
>>compress(archive(data));
>>But, when backing up to tapes, you want:
>>archive(compress(data));
> 
> 
>>In no way can you make a standard unix tar do that. 
> 
> 
> Um, gzip the files first then archive them.  You'll
> just have to unzip them when you retrieve the archive.
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Great idea! I just wanted to add that this can be easily done with gzip
-r <directory>.

-Isaac Hummel