> Cool, I learned something. Thanks. > > I use disks too. Could "seek" using dd, but I also gzip my stuff and use > cpio. :( Anyway, I almost never need to restore a file. :) I rather like fbackup combined with gzip, but I don't know if there is a Linux port of fbackup. I use fbackup to create a named index for each backup set, whether on disk or tape. This makes it easy to see if a particular file is on an archive without having to load the archive. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html