From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 23 17:26:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA13689 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA13659 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0yodO0-0004YU-00; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:26:04 -0700 Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:26:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Martin Blapp cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" , Tim Vanderhoek Subject: Re: GNU-Tar should be updated In-Reply-To: <35900407.FC480B48@attic.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Martin Blapp wrote: > Something like that is really ugly, a unix that can't backup > it's own files ... something like that I only know from M$ ... tar is an add-on, and is not the standard backup tool, dump/restore is. dump/restore have their own problems, but backing up /dev is not one of them. Besides, some think that all GNU tars should be replaced with star which is much faster. Plus star generates real posix archives. pax is also a nice tar replacement. On BSDI, tar is just a link to pax. I'm pretty sure pax can backup up /dev > Martin > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Martin Blapp, (blapp@attic.ch) > Attic Internet Services, Bechburgstrasse 8, 4702 Oensingen, Switzerland > Phone: +41 62 396 43 70, Fax: +41 62 396 43 72 > PGP fingerprint: 4E96 1AE8 4AA6 AB40 1AD6 DB42 7623 995D 522A 1D38 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Public key available at: http://www.attic.ch/pgp-public.html Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message