Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 12:10:50 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com Cc: fergus <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <3C0BB21A.D21999AC@mitre.org> References: <15363.38257.236253.85237@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011127144343.W421-100000@beagle.fokus.gmd.de> <9u5ied$1fjf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20011129161126.C1163@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> <3C06AD98.3070605@yahoo.com>
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Jim Bryant wrote: > > fergus wrote: > > >>>- It doesn't support incremental backups. That isn't a problem in > >> itself, but it's a feature our GNU tar currently has and people > >> probably don't want to lose. > > I dunno... The entire incremental thing in tar is dependant on NOT using compression, > > which IMHO makes it pretty useless, especially if you prefer the much tighter software > > compression you get from gzip. You must be thinking of something different than what I was thinking of. GNU tar has an option --incremental <file> (or --listed-incremental) that is unaffected by the use of gzip AFAIK. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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