[vox-tech] [fwd] backup solutions for 3 people

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Micah J. Cowan (micah at cowan.name):

> I have no experience with tape either, but I thought that's what tar &
> ar were for? AFAIK, no actual filesystem would be practical, so probably
> a tape's content consists of nothing more than a tar file.
> 
> Someone who actually knows something can point out any idiocy in what I
> just said. :-)

No, I think you have it exactly right:  Straight tar format would
generally be used for such things, in part because it's relatively
robust and a stable data format.