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

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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.

Answer: A

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