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Old 09-21-2004, 09:00 PM   #1
vince_2x
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Red face help with backup files


Hi!

Does anyone know how many types of backup files does linux have.. To what I understand their is tar files, gunzip files... is their any more??/


thanks for you response
 
Old 09-21-2004, 09:11 PM   #2
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bzip2, zip, and probably many more. but gzip and bzip2 are the most popular, used in connection with tar. i.e. tar.gz and tar.bz2
 
  


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