On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:37:32PM -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > I don't really see that as being unreasonable. However, I don't have a > lot of experience with using tar to backup though. In your experience, > is there a reason not to use --sparse in most occasions? It's probably somewhat slower to have to check if special handling is needed. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 80 degrees Fahrenheit.