Why shouldn’t you use the options -z and -j when using tar with a magnetic tape backup?

Why shouldn’t you use the options -z and -j when using tar with a magnetic tape backup?

Why shouldn’t you use the options -z and -j when using tar with a magnetic tape backup?

A.
In case of damaged tape uncompressed tar archives may allow partial recovery of the backup

B.
Standard Linux compression software and hardware compresion in the tape drive will cause
bigger files on the tapes.

C.
Standard Linux compression software won’t be able to write to sequential tape media.

D.
Backup and restore performance will be better if we don’t introduce the compression delay into
the process

E.
The tape drive hardware-based compression achieves higher compression rates than either gzip or
bzip2 software based compression.



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