GUI backup manager?

rpowersau at gmail.com rpowersau at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 11:55:51 UTC 2006


On 10/11/06, stude.list at googlemail.com <stude.list at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/06, rpowersau at gmail.com <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, one small diff. zip or tar will compress the files. An iso is
> > uncompressed.
> erm, technically isn't tar uncompressed?
> its just the tar program can use gzip or bzip to provide compression
> of the tar file.

Yes, tar doesn't have to compress. Though I've never used it as such.
And used in the context with zip, I would assume compression. But
maybe there are people who use it without compressing.

But the point was that an iso is not compressed. So it certainly isn't
the same as zip.


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