Most tape-drives have compression built in. Why burn CPU-cycles to compress when the tape-drive can do it for you? Best regards, Carel-Jan Engel === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === > >-----Original Message----- > >i see various combinations of tar, gzip , dd ... > >on the net to do this task. > > -- > To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe > To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/