Re: [Evolution] Evolution backup problem

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 18:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 19:07 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> >   diff ~/evolution.tar.gz /media/diskname/evolution.tar.gz
>
> I've not been following this thread closely, but I don't see the point
> of diff'ing two compressed tarballs. You aren't going to get anything
> usable as they are essentially binary files.

Correct.
> If you just want to see if they are different, use cmp instead, it's
> much faster.
Sure, but the output of diff on two binary files is more user friendly
than cmp - I felt that in this case it was more important than raw
speed.

P.