To make matters worse there has been no back up for over a few months now. <BR>So I guess your suggestion is helpful, also can I copy the tarred file on multiple volumes and also how easy to do ...

You probably know that you can quickly create a compressed file archive in Finder by selecting the files to be compressed, Control-clicking, and selecting Compress number Items from the contextual ...

I know how to make a .tar.gz, but it's not a tar (found this out when I tried to tar -xzf one of the files). My first question is how do I directly create a .gz?