On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:49 AM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
In some cases you want to preserve the exact blocking
structure of the
tape, not just the set of files. I don't know if you can do that using dd
or tar.
dd doesn't change blocking, it's just a byte-by-byte dump, unless you specify
otherwise. Tar, on the other hand, looks for files.