From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 3 11:26:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EADD37B416 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:26:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fB3JQPn28751; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:26:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:26:25 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag Message-ID: <20011203112625.A28547@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <9u5ied$1fjf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20011129153648.P33262-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011129153648.P33262-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>; from bandix@looksharp.net on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:50:00PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:50:00PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Christian Weisgerber 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. > > It's a feature that is essential that FreeBSD doesn't lose IMO. Those > of us who use tar w/ amanda to backup FreeBSD boxes know how crucial the > ability to make incremental backups of filesystems can be. GNUtar would always be available as a port. So that takes care of the amanda requirement. > Even my IRIX boxes come with > GNUtar 1.13 in the freeware distribution. Our base system having 1.11.2 > is unfortunate. If I make a test FreeBSD latest-GNUtar version, are you willing to test it out and tell me if it could go live? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message