From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 5:59:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D2937B66E for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 05:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13hX6F-000Boz-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:59:43 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA60074 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:59:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:59:43 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: standard backup programs Message-ID: <20001006135943.B59999@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I checked out the backupcentral comparison of unix backup progs. One of the big issues for me is incrementals. The man page for tar claims it does them, but it doesn't mention if it uses a stamp file, like dumpdates. Has anyone gotten this to work? Also, at the risk of being branded as a luser, I would like to be able to browse my backups easily with midc, and so far, only tar does that. If I do not need system critical filesystem backups, but just personal archives and backups to a zip disk, is there any reason to use anything besides tar? Greg Lehey said it the book tar can do about all you need, but I just wanted to get a few other opinions. I think right now I am leaning toward flexbackup with tar. jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message