Le dimanche 16 janvier 2011 à 20:52 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee a écrit : > For a database which is necessarily more complicated, the whole > database may be a write-off. Database are more complicated and also more sophisticated. With mechanism to prevent losing data if corruption of file. So I would say, there are at the same level if not better than a tar file. You failed to mention than tar file are always compressed so this adds a layer of failure. I just picked up /var/lib/pacman/extra.tar.gz and changes a few bytes here and there with hexedit and I can only retrieve 15 directory starting with 'a'. so that's pretty bad, I would say.
