[GRASS-user] Copy an existing location

[Rainer M Krug]

"Bartolomei.Chris" <Bartolomei.Chris at ensco.com> writes:

[snip (4 lines)]

> The reason I say this is the file
> compression I suggested may cause some data loss ... look into
> lossless data compression algorithms and you'll see what I'm talking
> about.

Could you please elaborate and give some references where lossless data
compression (gz, zip) may cause data loss? Especially tar.gz is used for
ages in archival and backup?

Rainer


[snip (46 lines)]
-- 
Rainer M. Krug
email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de
PGP: 0x0F52F982
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 454 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/attachments/20160429/a30a0d9b/attachment-0001.sig>