From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 3 9:11: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [128.29.154.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5B9937B416 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:10:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB3HAqc29275; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:10:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB3HApa18681; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:10:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 8533914; Mon, 03 Dec 2001 12:10:49 -0500 Message-ID: <3C0BB21A.D21999AC@mitre.org> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 12:10:50 -0500 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com Cc: fergus , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 (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